Re: Firefox Problem

"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 26/01/2006 pmj wrote:
>
>> & also, along the way, showing how to use things like little
>> snippets of JavaScript to do useful stuff & how to Save them
>> as Bookmarklets (Favorites), so you can use them again, whenever
>> you want.
>
> That bit puzzles me - why would you want to?

Lots of reasons!!!...

Firefox (especially!) has loads of Options & Settings & Add-Ons
& Scripts available, (even more than are available for Internet
Explorer) for all the people who like to Fiddle around.

There's a thing called "GreaseMonkey", which loads of people use
& contibute all sorts of weird & wonderful Scripts to.

& many of the Bookmarklets that were originally developed for
Internet Explorer can be modified to work with (& do even more stuff
with) Mozilla/Firefox Browsers.

>... If a page doesn't show properly in one browser then try another,

Well, yes...
Bu tsome people might like to find out *why* it doesn't look how
they expect.

& those sort of things (the way Pages show up) often depend on all
sorts of different things - not just the Browser in use, but what
*Settings* & Options are used.

>... and let the web master know if you have time, otherwise move on.
> With the Internet acting as the infrastructure for what must be
> approaching a 'perfect market' if you can't get what you want/need
> from source a then you go to source b - and in the fullness of time
> source a goes out of business (mind you I did have to take economics
> twice so I may have misunderstood that bit!).

Yep, but you're looking at it purely from a "Utilitarian" (Consumers)
Point of View, as it being just a sort of "Shop Window".

It's actually a *Web* page & as such is subject to all the vagaries
of Web Design & different browsers etc.

When people (not just Users, but Web Designers as well) get to know
that what people see in their Web Browser is as much determined by
the way their Browser is Set up, as by what the Web Designer specifies,
*then* we might get Web Pages that look OK in a wide range of Browsers,
Not just on PCs, but also on Apple Macs, Linux & even PDAs & Phones
& HandHelds without falling apart & looking really naff in some.

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pmj


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