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Hello all,

I have a website hosted through GoDaddy and they offer Serendipity as an option for blogging software. Although they use version 0.8.2 for some reason it was very easy to setup and get going.

The issue is that the newly created blog looks just fine in IE and Opera but apparently the style sheets are not being used in Firefox. It does this no matter what template I use. It behaves this way on several machines with the latest Firefox. Plus it does this with a Firefox install with no extensions whatsoever.

Oddly enough if I go to another blog using Serendipity via the Who Is Using section of the homepage those pages load just fine in Firefox. So I'm at a loss as to the problem here. I'm guessing that it may be the older installation of Serendipity but I can't be sure.

Any ideas?

For an update for a little more info.

I deleted out the GoDaddy version 0.8.2 and installed version 1.0 and created my own database instead of using the automatic one that GoDaddy created.

After a bit of setting up I'm now running 1.0 and I still see the problem that the template's css is not being used in Firefox but looks correct in IE and Opera.

I've even upgraded the smarty template system to the latest version to no avail.

But on a weird note the admin panel for Serendipity looks correct. The only time the page looks wrong is just at the front page of the blog.

If you give us a URL, we'll go look at it.

Could be a problem with the browser cache, too. Have you tried hitting shift-reload?

http://www.travisalmand.net/serendipity/

I've tried that, cleared the cache and loaded it on a different machine at a different location with all the same results.

Hi!

Something on your website is inserting Ads for every page!

This kills the CSS files:

http://travisalmand.net/serendipity/serendipity.css

Look at the end of the file; that output there is instructing a browser to not properly render a CSS...

Best regards,
Garvin

Hi!

I have the same problem too.

http://www.wwpromo.co.uk/blog/serendipity/

And I cannot find any serendipity.css, only serendipity.css.php.

Could you take a look?

Hi chelcool!

That' s a strange problem. It works using IE6, but it doesn't with Firefox.

I suspect it's because your server delivers a "Content-Type: text/css;charset=win-1251" line, without a space between "text/css; charset". Can you contact the server admin and ask him to change this default Content-Type?

Another reason for that might be because Content-Encoding: gzip is set for your Stylesheet?

It's sadly not a serendipity problem, but seems to be server-related.

HTH,
Garvin