I use Internet explorer, Netscape and Firefox and find that the CITY
web site (www.mcfc.co.uk) only works in Explorer.  In the other two it
usually crashes.

Has anyone else experienced this and perhaps knows the answer.

I only use Firefox and have no problems whatsoever.
In fact, thanks to Firefox and the Adblock and Flashblock extensions, i 
can get rid of those annoying animated adverts on the site. First time i 
see one i right-click on it and block it.
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"Brian"  wrote in message 
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>I use Internet explorer, Netscape and Firefox and find that the CITY
> web site (www.mcfc.co.uk) only works in Explorer.  In the other two it
> usually crashes.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this and perhaps knows the answer.

It uses a proprietary Microsoft extensions and I'm fairly sure it uses 
Microsoft's godawful ASP on the .NET framework.  If they took care they 
could make it work properly across all browsers, but they haven't taken 
care - the front page uses an outdated document definition (Transitional) 
and even then falls over on 41 counts:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcfc.co.uk%2F

It's built by these clowns - http://www.imgworld.com - whose own front page, 
though written to the correct DTD (Strict), falls down on 209 counts:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgworld.com%2Fhome%2Fdefault.sps

I always use Firefox and I've never had a problem with the site, but I'm 
wondering if you've got any extensions installed that might interfere with 
Microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish" operations.

It's quite a serious issue - the UK market is about 80% IE, which means if 
they don't cater for other browsers properly they're alienating 20% of 
customers.  In other markets IE penetration is considerably less - in 
Germany it's less than 60%, meaning you're losing 40% of your customers. 
Wonder what it's like in Thailand and China?

+mrcakey
www.manchester-website-design.co.uk

Whatever Mr Cakey (e+) says must be true - whatever it means. I use Firefox 
with no problems on the site.

"Brian"  wrote in message 
news:9781e64e-99ac-4ca9-a8a9-3349572d91d4@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>I use Internet explorer, Netscape and Firefox and find that the CITY
> web site (www.mcfc.co.uk) only works in Explorer.  In the other two it
> usually crashes.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this and perhaps knows the answer.

I use Firefox and mcfc.co.uk works fine. Have you tried Help -> Check for 
Updates in Firefox?

That said, I subscribe to mcfctv.com and I can't get that to work with 
Firefox, I have to use IE. Anyone here use mcfctv.com with Firefox?

Thanks for your views