Errors from style sheets

January 28, 2006 10:47 AM

Firefox 1.5 is throwing up a list of errors from the Metafilter style sheets, mainly (but not solely) about 'font-color'.

Just thought you'd like to know.
posted by twine42 to Bugs at 10:47 AM (12 comments total)

Looks like the grey, blue and green all have munged style sheets, but in different ways. The green looks like it's just typos.
posted by twine42 at 10:50 AM on January 28, 2006

All looks fine for me.
posted by mischief at 11:04 AM on January 28, 2006

I noticed this the other day when I had my debugging window open to work on something else. It doesn't seem to have an effect on rendering that I can see.

Here's an example from the FF javascript console:

Error: Error in parsing value for property 'cursor'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.metafilter.com/styles/default110.css
Line: 228

posted by lodurr at 11:14 AM on January 28, 2006

Nothing too shocking in the validators after fixing one typo.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:15 AM on January 28, 2006

Shocking or not, I don't know; as I said, doesn't seem to have an impact on rendering. In any case, the MeFi main results are more extensive.
posted by lodurr at 11:18 AM on January 28, 2006

Eh, I thought this was well-known. It's been going on for a while.
posted by orthogonality at 11:27 AM on January 28, 2006

Why does the validator want you to set color and background-color for every element? Seems like a waste of time.
posted by smackfu at 11:27 AM on January 28, 2006

lodurr, I just applied the same typo fixes, all should be fine now. The warnings can be safely ignored.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:27 AM on January 28, 2006

Since 1.5 the Javascript Console is now the dumping ground for errors and warnings from CSS, chrome, etc. in addition to Javascript. It's become nearly useless for Javascript debugging. The console2 extension lets you filter errors for type and source which helps (although I've found it a little rickety).
posted by TimeFactor at 11:39 AM on January 28, 2006

Although it's nice that it'll pick up errors in GreaseMonkey scripts. Or did it always do that?
posted by matthewr at 11:51 AM on January 28, 2006

matthewr writes "Although it's nice that it'll pick up errors in GreaseMonkey scripts. Or did it always do that?"


It always did that, although GM may have caught and reported exceptions rather than let them propagate.
posted by orthogonality at 12:01 PM on January 28, 2006

...dumping ground...

NN4 used JavaScript to implement stylesheets. Turn off JS -- turn off CSS. Simple (though sometimes frustrating). I assumed that this indicated FF working in a similar (though presumably more refined) way.
posted by lodurr at 5:35 AM on January 29, 2006