[thelist] netscape 4 nested tables - YAY!

[James Aylard]

David,

> OK well then here's a question, I put the page up here:
> http://www.davedenis.com/ns4/home3.html

> Now, in NS4 it stalls after a second, and then takes about 12 seconds to
> load (page doesn't look proper yet).  This isn't a bandwidth issue, try it
...

    One potential problem may be that this page is generated by IE's MSHTML
parser, and Netscape might not like it. But you appear to have problems with
missing or improperly placed closing </table> tags within your nested
tables:

 396:            </TD>
 397:           </TR>
 398:          </TD>
 399:         </TR>
 400:        </TABLE>
...
 469:
color=green>1.5</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TD></TR></TABLE><
/TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR>
...
 533:
color=green>0.7</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TD></TR></TABLE><
/TD></TR></TABLE><IMG
 ... and so forth. I suggest running your page through the W3C validator [1]
and cleaning it up per the validator's recommendations, and then see what
happens. In Netscape, improperly nested tables, or tables with missing end
tags, are fatal -- your table content simply won't display.

James Aylard

1. http://validator.w3.org/