My draft webpage currently has a <head> but no <body>. It links to a css stylesheet that exists in the expected location but is currently blank. When I loaded it into Firefox 17.0.1 for Win XP, the error console returned these three messages:

Could not read chrome manifest 'file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/extensions/%7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D/chrome.manifest'.

Timestamp: 07/01/2013 4:26:25 PM
Warning: XUL box for _moz_generated_content_after element contained an inline #text child, forcing all its children to be wrapped in a block.
Source File: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Line: 0

Direct3D 9 DeviceManager Initialized Succesfully.
Driver: nv4_disp.dll
Description: NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS
Version: 6.14.13.681

Can someone help me interpret the messages so I understand what they mean?

Progz

I read the bug discussion and it makes Mozilla sound like some sleepy-eyed bureaucracy. What I'll probably do is abandon Firefox and switch to Chrome as my Windows browser. In Linux I'll just find a non-Mozilla browser to use. I'm really, really disappointed in what I just read through the link trail you provided me. But at least it's not a problem with my code, just with organizational ossification, which the open-source community doesn't appear to be immune from.

I had been a big fan of the open-source concept but am starting to wonder whether it has lost its way. This isn't the first time I've found some troubling occurrences within open-source subcommunities.

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@Proglearner

need help interpreting error messages

Can you post your code? Including the CSS code that included this: element contained an inline #text child.

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@Proglearner

This isn't the first time I've found some troubling occurrences within open-source subcommunities.

You have to understand some CSS code won't work correctly in some browser you need to find a way to adapt to it.

Sure, I'll post the code. In fact, I'll just upload it. (The image file is missing from this upload and I wasn't allowed to upload a .css file so it's a .txt copy).

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@Proglearner

Sure, I'll post the code. In fact, I'll just upload it.

I assume you are using HTML5? Most function doesn't work well on some browsers.

First of all you didn't put a close </body> </html> on the bottom of your code.

So this is your code that I edit a little:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Eyetee's Coding and Creativity Site</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="Miki-Kocic, Eyetee, IT, computer, website, webdesign, design, writing, creative-writing, fiction, story, stories, short-story, short-stories, html, 
css, programming, javascript, computer-code, game, app, apps" />
<meta name="description" content="Javascript games, short stories and more" />
<meta name="author" content="Miki Kocic" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Coding and Creativity Plans and Dreams</h1>
<img src="webimage.png" />
<p></p>
<h3></h3>
<p></p>
<h3></h3>
<p></p>
<div></div>
</body>
</html>

Second your CSS doesn't have this @charset "UTF-8"; .There's nothing wrong with your CSS code at all maybe this p div I never seen that one but since you are HTML5 you need to put @charset "UTF-8"; on top of your CSS

Read it more here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/@charset

This is your CSS

@charset "UTF-8";
body {background-color: #2f4f4f;}
h1 {font-family: cursive;font-size: 2.5em;color: #ff8c00;background-color: #fff8dc;margin: auto;text-align: center;border: 1px solid black;border-radius: 12px;padding-bottom: 7px; margin-bottom: 35px;}
h3 {font-family: cursive;font-size: 2em;color: #ff8c00;background-color: #fff8dc;margin: auto;text-align: center;border: 1px solid black;border-radius: 12px;padding-bottom: 7px;}
p {font-family: sans-serif;font-size: 1.2em;color: yellow;text-align: left;border: 1px solid white;border-radius: 8px;padding: 4px;margin-bottom: 35px;}
img {height: 200px;width: 100%;margin: auto;text-align: center;border: 1px solid black;border-radius: 30px;}
div {color: orange;font-family: cursive;font-size: 0.8em;}
p div {color: black;font-family:cursive;font-size: 1.2em;}

If most html 5 functions don't work well in some browsers, should I be using html 4.01 instead? It wouldn't be that difficult to recode the webpage to comply with 4.01.

The webpage isn't finished and I simply forgot to put in the closing body and html tags ahead of time, but thanks for the reminder.

The p div needs to be deleted because it was something I tried in order to use a <div> tag nested within a <p> tag in order to change text style through the separate stylesheet instead of using html tags within the text. I'll get rid of it.

Thanks very much. Solved.

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If most html 5 functions don't work well in some browsers, should I be using html 4.01 instead? It wouldn't be that difficult to recode the webpage to comply with 4.01.

No, you can still used <!DOCTYPE html> for most CSS code too. As long you remember which CSS code can be used in <!DOCTYPE html>. Some CSS3 won't comply well in certain browsers so that's why you can mixed it up as long you can find a common ground for a certain CSS code then there shouldn't be any issue.

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