html on Fedora -- looking for "where to go"

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 07:42:32 UTC 2011


2011/8/8, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>:
> Community:
>
> I have @330 htm pages that display wonderfully on Win XP under 4.01
> Strict. No errors per w3C validator.
>
> They won't even come close to proper display on Fedora 14. I can get
> them validated successfully on F14 through w3c Validator, but I am
> seeing error console reports in Firefox about "such-and-such function is
> not defined". The weird part is that it only picks out selective
> functions to not find in the *.js script, other functions in the *.js
> script do not generate errors.

w3c's html  validator is unlikely to signal problems with your
javascript (and no validator could if the problem is not a syntactic
one).

> I did a search in Bugzilla for Firefox and multiple permutations of what
> I thought the error was and didn't see anything.
>
> I am looking for suggestions as to where to start digging on this one as
> I don't have anything worth considering to be a bug at this point. I am
> hard-pressed to believe that Windows XP is okay and Fedora is not on the
> same *.htm" page ... but that's all I can see at this point.

It's probably not a Win XP vs Fedora but an IE vs Firefox question.
Have you tried FF on Win XP? Or other browsers on Fedora?

Andras


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