Fixing Compatibility Issues
February 7th, 2005 by Steve Pavlina
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A big thank you to James Shaw for helping me discover and fix a long-time compatibility issue between WordPress and Newsgator. I’ve known about this problem since shortly after this site launched but hadn’t understood quite how to fix it, since the problem wasn’t directly with the RSS feed itself. Some online feed validators showed no errors while others failed to validate the feed. It turned out to be caused by a single-character typo in one of the original WordPress files that was sending an incorrect header, and it’s now fixed. So if you wanted to subscribe to this blog via Newsgator but couldn’t, you should be able to do so now. Thanks, James! And also a big thanks to everyone else who gave me suggestions on various ideas to try along the way.
Next on my site maintenance agenda is to fix the compatibility issue between this site and the Firefox web browser. In Firefox the right sidebar displays at the bottom of each page, and the top menu is graphically messed up. This isn’t a problem with the blog — it occurs on every page of this site. It seems to be some kind of CSS alignment issue. The site currently looks fine in IE and in NetCaptor, so I need to make sure that any fix doesn’t break the display in other browsers.
February 7th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
You’re very welcome Steve, and thanks for the mention. I’m looking forward to reading your articles tonight; they were highly recommended to me by a friend..btw, I blog at http://www.CoverYourASP.NET
February 7th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
Oh. The links were supposed to be at the top instead of the bottom? Oh well. B-)
February 8th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
Cool, finally the feed works in Sharpreader too. Good work.
February 8th, 2005 at 10:22 pm
It appears that the layout issues are present with Safari, then, too. The right sidebar appears at the bottom of the page.
There are also issues with Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac. Although the sidebar appears at the top of the page, the leading text (”Steve Pavlina.com … Personal Grown and Conscious Living”) appear white on white (illegible).
You may be able to test your website at your local Apple Store:
http://www.apple.com/retail/fashionshow/map/
I think they have high-speed Internet to each store? Besides, you’ve gotta see those 30″ cinema displays! Wow.