Firefox are tagged (no pun intended) by developers as having “poor table handling”. When writing web applications, tables in Internet Explorer (IE) may look differently than when rendered with FireFox. This is a frustrating situation for both develoeprs and consumers.
In reality, IE and Firefox read the same HTML but render it differently. Firefox renders tables exactly as you present it. If the HTML is not well formed, it shows. Commonly, the culprit is a missing or extra TR and/or TD tags. On the other hand, IE “fixes” broken HTML.
In my opinion browsers that read my code and “fix” it automatically weakens the discipline of software development by allowing poor practices to pass. Website development is difficult enough when you consider the Javascript issues. Don’t contribute to the problem with poor coding practices.
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