Hi Everyone,

I've some webpages which don't display properly in K-meleon, but they work in IE. You can check the pictures below.

K-Meleon
IE7

You can see the page in IE looks better than K-Meleon
Sometimes when I load a webpage. Some images of the webpage show up slowly.

Anyone knows about this problem, plz help!

Sorry to say - There is AFAIK nothing or not much You can do about it.

IMHO the reason is obsolete and/or non standard html code. You sometimes can find out what is wrong when You look into K-Meleon JavaScript / Error Console.
MSIE 5.01 - 5.5 had a quirky box model (among other non standart idiosyncracies ), IE. 6.0 - 7.0 still support all this - but already have more standard compliancy.
Mircosoft also made web development tools that produced bad code. Many older pages
are designed with these faults and would have become bad if the faults had been corrected right away.


So MS built a very "tolerant" so called quirks mode into their newer browsers. And some ppl only test their pages with IE.

Result: Some pages are IE only - or best viewed with IE. Since Microsoft had a almost monopoly many pages like that still exist. And new pages like that are still added when pages are tested with only one browser (IE).

Almost all non Microsoft browsers stick to the Web Standards of Word Wide Web Consortium. Microsoft has announced the intention to improve standard compliance of future IE's.

p. s. Maybe You can suggest that the ppl that own the pages test with Firefox (which is the most widely spread browser with a standard compliant engine ). I personally would not bother - let them have bad pages (as long as my own shines ).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2007 04:25PM by guenter.

I don't understand very much about technical issues. I know that KM's using the same engine (Gecko) as FF. I gave FireFox a try, and it loaded the webpage perfectly. It's confusing me, but it's not a big deal!
Anyway, thanks a lot for your reply.

Ok.

FF and k-m should both render the same.
So we know that is not yet another non standard page.


Try with a new k-meleon profile ( that has standard settings & normaly nothing is broken ). That is the easiest way to fix it if something is wrong.

If not post the url, please ( then someone with another system and k-m settup can check/try / in case we have a bug ).

greetings to SE from DE - guenter

How about changing the useragent string to mozilla, I find that fix many things for me

huggie: Your idea is particularily true for Yahoo Beta Mail (which cannot be used otherwise