Posted by Blinky the Shark on 10/03/07 00:33

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Am I (or is my software) missing something here? What's making these
>> huge gaps in the code? (Look at your vert scrollbar.)
>>
>> http://www.berniewilliams.net/
>
> Bernie needs a new webmaster/author. Seems to be about 250 nested
> spans.

Like I said, there were a LOT more than I showed in that screen cap.
Not counting the menu, the word count for that page is only 580.

> How'd you run across this one?

It was a Google Groper I saw quoted in
news.mozilla.org:mozilla.support.firefox

<1191342002.846638.34140@n39g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>

GG carries that group and archives it, but the post doesn't seem to be
there, yet.

<q>

mulvaney51@yahoo.com pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on
10/2/2007 12:20 PM:
> > I am new to developing websites. I am using freeservers to host my
> > site. It shows fine in IE but the formatting does not seem to
> > translate when viewing in Firefox. The text changes and the
> > pictures do not align properly. Can anyone shed any light on what
> > the problem is?
> >
> > The website is http://www.berniewilliams.net.
> >
> > Thank you.

</q>

It's not uncommon for borked-website posts to appear in that group, even
from real Usenetters. That one shows 86 validation errors; granted,
that's a lot fewer than those spans. :)


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