"Ben Bullock" <benkasminbullock@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:dvm7sg$3nk$1@ml.accsnet.ne.jp...
> "Sean" <notsean@fake.ca> wrote in message 
> news:C043BEB2.8D8F%notsean@fake.ca...
>> On 3/19/06 7:18 PM, in article dvl6tr$pm2$1@ml.accsnet.ne.jp, "Ben 
>> Bullock"
>> <benkasminbullock@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When I tried to "view image" for what the word was, I got the same 
>>> message
>>> as Bart did.
>>
>> Whoops. I withdraw my teasing. (But my moldy old Mac showed the images 
>> well
>> enough.)
>
> I have the latest version of Firefox for Windows which I downloaded 
> yesterday.
>
> My son only uses the Microsoft Internet Explorer because places like the 
> "cartoon network" web site don't work with Firefox.
>
> I think some kinds of content aren't supported comprehensively on Firefox.

    This is a pet peeve of mine: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has 
published a standard describing the file format for web pages; Internet 
Explorer does not conform with these standards. That means web pages 
designed specifically for IE will not work on any other browser, since it's 
not using the normal format expected. If Microsoft would fix their browser, 
everyone would see the same thing on every site, and we wouldn't have 
problems like these.

    Anyway, the problem with the broken images has to do with the way the 
website was written. The image links to 
"http://www.hitsalive.com/japanese_wotd//pngs/a88504a%00.png" which is a 
suspiciously strange URL. If you get rid of the double slash before "png", 
and get rid of the %00, you end up with
"http://www.hitsalive.com/japanese_wotd/pngs/a88504a.png", and when try 
going there, the image displays properly.

    The page is generated dynamically by a computer program, and that there 
are some bugs. I guess whatever browser Sean is using somehow "detected" 
that the URL was malformed, and managed to correct it.

    I went to http://validator.w3.org/ and tried to validate the "Word of 
the Day" site; there's 17 errors.

    - Oliver