Comment 24 for bug 575897

(In reply to Ralph Navarro from comment #14)
> > The standard will be changed based on that discussion.
> Poppycock! While, yes, the standard can get changed, the timing becomes too
> slow to be practical. The standard won't get changed for years after the
> initial conversation and after many discussions/revisions. Meanwhile,
> solutions have to be created and implemented by developers. The new
> standard looses its effectiveness until major browsers catch up.

That is just wrong. Asking it the standards Working Group for something that isn't clear in the standards is pretty fast. No single browser vendor will change their browser to follow a different browser if they think they are correctly following the standard and it makes sense to do it in that way.
What I don't understand is that your website screwed up and you are their customer.
I would just move to a different bank. I did that once 8 years ago with an IE only bank webpage. Why should they fix their broken page if the don't have to ?

> Comment #3 was posted 9 months afterwards. It has been so long, I don't
> remember if I tried Comment #3's suggestion or not. What I do remember is
> the frustration that I had with Firefox on Linux while this 'bug' on the
> site's page was able to work with Firefox on WinXP.

It can't be a Firefox bug if it works on Windows and doesn't work on Linux.
There is no difference in the html/JS/imagelib etc. between the platforms !
The main differences are only in the graphic output and system integration like the default browser, Themes but that doesn't affect the content of webpages.

> Why is Mozilla treating Linux with a lower priority than MS? Shouldn't us
> users be able to expect that browsers have the same behavior across
> platforms? When the browser behaviors start to drift, is it unreasonable to
> expect that the browser with the worst user experience be the one to get
> fixed? We all know that MS Windows is a different enough beast than Linux
> which might make common behavior hard to achieve; but what is the harm in
> trying?

Again, the whole rendering code is cross-platform and the same source code is used on windows, linux, OS/2, BSD, AIX
The only difference in your case is that Firefox tells the webpage that it's a Firefox browser that runs on linux and not on Windows.