I like the fact that Firefox sticks to the standards weeding out loopholes to make more solid code. If you have ever used <a href="http://EppleyAirfield.com">EppleyAirfield.com</a>'s Airline Flight Information in Firefox (even on Windows), you have been aggravated by the following problem for a few years. Yes, i complained 2 or 3 years ago, but clearly nothing has been done to change just a single character.
HirschDesign.com put in a backslash "%5C" instead of a forward slash "%2F" for the logo images. These images are required to find the airline in question. What is more insulting is that there is no alternative text in place of a picture. There is no ALT="AirlineName" html in case images are turned off - such as on a slow cell phone.
<br><br>Right click on the image place holders at <a href="http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/fids_a.html">http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/fids_a.html</a> and choose "Copy Image Location". Paste that into your favorite text editor and you will see the offending culprit %5C backslash '\' immediately before the name of the file. Change the '%5C' into a forward slash or 'Solidus' and paste that into the address bar of Firefox.
<br> Malformed HTML: <a href="http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/images%255Cinline_southwest.gif">http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/images%5Cinline_southwest.gif</a><br> Well formed HTML: <a href="http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/images/inline_southwest.gif">
http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/images/inline_southwest.gif<br></a><br>Please urge the following changes:<br><br>1.) Fix the images to web standards by changing the backslash to a forward slash. From the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986</a>, <span>"<span style="font-weight: bold;">A path consists of a sequence of path segments separated by a slash ("/") character.</span>
" <br><br></span>2.) Add alternate text to the images to make them compatible with screen readers. Required for all government websites for years. "<span><span style="font-weight: bold;">HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
1.0</span>" at </span><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-text-equivalent">http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-text-equivalent</a><br><br>OMAHA AIRPORT AUTHORITY, <br> 4501 Abbott Drive, Suite 2300/ EPPLEY AIRFIELD, OMAHA, NE 68110-2689
<br> Business Office - (402) 661-8000 <br> Airport Information - (402) 661-8017<br> Fax - (402) 661-8025<br><span><br><a href="http://hirschdesign.com/">http://hirschdesign.com/</a><br> </span>14801 Pratt Court<br>
Omaha, NE 68116<br><span> 402-455-0383<br> <a href="mailto:jenhirsch@hirschdesign.com">jenhirsch@hirschdesign.com</a><br><br></span>p.s. Our family depends upon airline flight arrival / departure information because get togethers can involve scores of people arriving at the airport. I don't want to have to boot into Windows just to check on flight status. Please urge them to fix the website.
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