Online Poll has text over "Ron Paul" in Firefox - WTF?

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

There was a post on this online poll but titles did not mention that you cannot see Ron Paul if you use Firefox!

Look for yourself.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14692185/detail.html

Try Internet explorer and then Firefox....

I have some screen shots and blogged it then put it on D1gg

remove hxxp and add http

hxxp://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Screen_Shots_of_Media_Bias_against_Firefox_users

[Madison]

The Firefox mishap is just a result of the page being exclusively designed for Internet Explorer...the fact that the text ends up overlapping Ron Paul's name is just a coincidence.

Or is it?

Probably.

[rfbz]

you're right, I can't even vote for Ron Paul using firefox, it keeps going to that presidential race page. Doesn't look like it's holding back many votes though, he's clearly in the lead.

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

This poll has been going on for a week or so. Its hard to imagine 4000 people voting and no one emailing the webmaster telling them the problem.... I am probably going to do that now just to see what they say.

[Wyurm]

It just isn't firefox friendly. I was able to vote using IE, not sure how Opera would work.

[Veritas Vos Liberabit]

Works fine in Opera.

[noztnac]

My question is why does it say Clinton and Giuliani are leading when they clearly aren't?

[lastnymleft]

We should keep a list of these unfortunate so-called coincidences. They never seem to happen to other candidates.

[Birdlady]

wow Huckabee isn't even listed. That's surprising.

[Thomas_Paine]

Yeah why is Tancredo up there and not Huckabee...

[Lexx78]

on my 22 inch there is only text over obama's name in firefox :)

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Wow I did not try a 22"... Maybe I should try a small screen laptop as well...

Lexx78 is there any chance you can do a screen capture of that? If your on a PC it is ctrl - prnt screen to copy and then jsut paste it in a picture program,paint photoshop etc...

Sounds like you might be on a MAC though.

Here is a pic for anyone who didnt see it

http://ronpaulblogs.com/files/2007/11/zoomzoom.jpg

[kotetu]

hold your control button and scroll up and down to change the size of the text, that will clear it up for your vote. :)

[Elwar]

click on Obama then hit the down arrow :)

[kotetu]

Choice Votes Percentage of 5286 Votes
Joe Biden - D 35 1%
Hillary Rodham Clinton - D 599 11%
Chris Dodd - D 6 0%
John Edwards - D 150 3%
Rudy Giuliani - R 575 11%
Alan Keyes - R 10 0%
Dennis Kucinich - D 169 3%
John McCain - R 322 6%
Barack Obama - D 332 6%
Ron Paul - R 2027 38%
Bill Richardson - D 65 1%
Mitt Romney - R 250 5%
Tom Tancredo - R 231 4%
Fred Thompson - R 309 6%
None of the above 206 4%

[jonahtrainer]

Wow I did not try a 22"... Maybe I should try a small screen laptop as well...

Lexx78 is there any chance you can do a screen capture of that? If your on a PC it is ctrl - prnt screen to copy and then jsut paste it in a picture program,paint photoshop etc...

Sounds like you might be on a MAC though.

Here is a pic for anyone who didnt see it

http://ronpaulblogs.com/files/2007/11/zoomzoom.jpg


I am on a MAC with Leopard and the latest version of Firefox. The grey text is actually layered behind the poll. Probably just a coincidence but who cares?

[constitutional]

Certain things appear differently in different browsers. I don't believe the webmaster did this intentionally.

Please bury the digg article. I have experience in web development and I can tell you that the article is ridiculous.

[ashlux]

Certain things appear differently in different browsers. I don't believe the webmaster did this intentionally.

Please bury the digg article. I have experience in web development and I can tell you that the article is ridiculous.

Sheesh, no kidding.

Interestingly, it actually shows up over Romney's name for me.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.8 (Ubuntu-feisty)

[ItsTime]

This is no big deal. I have a few websites that look funny in Fire Fox and not IE. This is not uncommon at all.

[DanielF17]

I found a way to get past the text. Click on another candidate's box and press the arrows on your keyboard to get to ron paul's name.

[jarmoore]

My question is why does it say Clinton and Giuliani are leading when they clearly aren't?
That happens in every poll. If RP is leading there is clearly a problem. Better exclude him since the results are so obviously skewed.

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Amistad - I also have web design experience but am not an expert. I havent had time to figure out the code on that page and what exactly is wrong. I stated on the article that myself and other web designers dont think it is deliberate and even suggested what you and others have said.

But I dont think the article is "ridiculous" and a web design should never have parts of the page show over other parts of the page obstructing view significantly or compeltely. None of their other pages do this, why this one?

I made the article because at the time RP was losing this poll and this poll was being used as proof of his loss of support by both the people that made this poll and other websites.

And I will post an addition showing that the other candidates are being affected. I guess its obvious me and all my friends are on 17 or 19" monitors....

[Lexx78]

Wow I did not try a 22"... Maybe I should try a small screen laptop as well...

Lexx78 is there any chance you can do a screen capture of that? If your on a PC it is ctrl - prnt screen to copy and then jsut paste it in a picture program,paint photoshop etc...

Sounds like you might be on a MAC though.

Here is a pic for anyone who didnt see it

http://ronpaulblogs.com/files/2007/11/zoomzoom.jpg

Here's a pic of the site at my 22 inch

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6348/245231xa0.jpg

and I am on windows XP home but when I allow the site to load the scripts the line goes over Ron Pauls name too :)

[voytechs]

There was a post on this online poll but titles did not mention that you cannot see Ron Paul if you use Firefox!

Look for yourself.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14692185/detail.html

Try Internet explorer and then Firefox....

I have some screen shots and blogged it then put it on D1gg

remove hxxp and add http

hxxp://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Screen_Shots_of_Media_Bias_against_Firefox_users

Just press <CNTRL>+ to change the size of the font and the text will move to another spot so you can click on it.

RP is still winning by a landslide 39%!

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Here's a pic of the site at my 22 inch

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6348/245231xa0.jpg

and I am on windows XP home but when I allow the site to load the scripts the line goes over Ron Pauls name too :)

It looks like you are not loading the square ad that I see. I see a bed ad from doubleclick. Are you blocking ads with Norton or something?

I have a theory on whats going on. They didnt do a hard return after the image and the next thing is allowed to float in Firefox. The next thing are those two hyperlinks. They float over into the survey.

Whatever, I am not going to beat a dead horse. Get out there and hand stuff out, talk to people, and have fun!

[FrankRep]

Just click fast. :-)

Ron Paul - R 2143 40%


Oh look, we are winning.

[Highstreet]

There was a post on this online poll but titles did not mention that you cannot see Ron Paul if you use Firefox!

Look for yourself.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14692185/detail.html

Try Internet explorer and then Firefox....

I have some screen shots and blogged it then put it on D1gg

remove hxxp and add http

hxxp://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Screen_Shots_of_Media_Bias_against_Firefox_users

It's funny, because he is still winning by a large margin.....40%:)