[thelist] Site never finished loading on Mac

Wed Jul 25 18:21:18 CDT 2001

At 2:49 PM -0400 on 7/25/01, Eric Benvenue-Jennings wrote:
>
> I'm running into something that I've seen many times 
> but have never seen addressed or discussed. It has to 
> do with Mac compatibility and some web sites. Basically, 
> when visiting some sites, a page will appear to have 
> loaded in it's entirety but my browser acts as if the 
> page never finishes loading. 
> [snipped]
> First, can some other Mac users duplicate and confirm 
> this behavior? 
> 
> Is there anything that can be done in the coding
> that might address this and/or make the browser
> recognize that the data transfer has been completed?
> 
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Eric,

No problem loading here on a Powerbook (Pismo) using OS 9.1

But you may want to try changing your DOCTYPE from this...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">

...to just this...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

I'm suggesting this since IE 5 Mac treats a webpage as 
"Strict" HTML 4.01 even though you specify "Transitional" 
if you include that second line in the DOCTYPE.

HTH,

Simon
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