Re: Help with displaying news.bbc pages

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Help with displaying news.bbc pages
\ al (21 Apr 2008)
. \ Alex K. (21 Apr 2008)
. \ »Q« (21 Apr 2008)
. \ Steve Fisher (21 Apr 2008)
. \ al (22 Apr 2008)
. \ »Q« (22 Apr 2008)
. \ al (24 Apr 2008)
. . \ David McRitchie (24 Apr 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Help with displaying news.bbc pages
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	David McRitchie
Date:	24 Apr 2008

<al@invalid> wrote in message news:481065e8.3571046...
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:23:00 -0500, =?ISO-8859-1?B?u1Gr?=
> <boxcars> wrote:
>
>>al@invalid wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:43:31 -0400, "Alex K." <akfromak>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >al@invalid wrote:
>>> >> On for instance http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7354818.stm the
>>> >> paragraph
>>> >>
>>> >> "However, the number of deaths linked to blood clots still accounts
>>> >> for one in 10 of all those in hospitals in the UK." is displayed
>>> >> in a very small font using FF2.0.0.14 (XP Pro SP2) whereas it is
>>> >> fine with IE7.
>>> >>
>>> >> The problem occurs wherever there is text around a "quote box" and
>>> >> I think started after BBC chose their new page design.
>>> >>
>>> >> I've tried various options for font settings but cannot find one
>>> >> that sorts this out.
>>> >
>>> >There is nothing you can do about it, short of increasing the font
>>> >size, but that would increase the all of the fonts on the page.
>>> >
>>> >In the CSS for the page, they increase the font size for paragraph
>>> >text withing the story body:
>>> >
>>> >.storybody p,.storybodywide p{
>>> >
>>> > <snip irrelevant parts>
>>> >
>>> > font-size:1.3em;
>>> >
>>> >Looking at the page source, that sentence is not wrapped within any
>>> >tags. It is simply placed between the end of a table and the start
>>> >of a paragraph.
>>> >
>>> >IE is, apparently, making a 'best guess' at what the intent is,
>>> >whereas FF relies on the standards, to interpret the page code.
>>> >Since the text in question is not properly tagged, FF is rendering
>>> >it at the default font size.
>>> >
>>> >It is just one of 215 errors on that page:
>>> >http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk% 2F1%2Fhi%2Fhealth%2F7354818.stm
>>> >
>>>
>>> Many thanks. I'll email the BBC and with your comments and see if
>>> they can fix it as they are doing this for all similar pages. Anyone
>>> would think they are owned by m$oft :(
>>
>>I think you may have some success getting them to fix it -- it looks
>>like the routine that inserts the quotebox for them just puts it in the
>>wrong place. If they move it to /before/ that <P> tag instead of
>>after, the page should display ok, since the paragraph will have the
>><P> tag which was meant for it.
>>
>>If they do fix it, please post back about it.
>
> I got this response:
>
> "Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Thank you for your email and for your comments on the new design.
>
> We are in the process of getting the firefox issues sorted out. Thank
> you for taking the time to write to us.
>
> Regards,
>
> BBc News website"
>
>
>
> Certainly I am noticing it less often eg
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7363718.stm is ok (Para starting
> "The NUT is protesting .... " though I suspect that work must have
> already been in hand.

interesting they have some kind of rename Flash 9 player
BBC Media Player v2.2.1773
Settings...
About Adobe Flash Player 9..
is what I see with properties on the item with the graphic play button
kind of starts with the frame dropped down but does not play video.
Anyone don't have much/any luck with Flash Player 9 on Vista Basic
using Minefield.
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