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class=349145120-29072006>Target browser is IE 6 (Winders)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=349145120-29072006>This is for my own education, how do you handle this? I
was trying to use the XHTML 1.1 Strict DTD. With my script code in the document
head, I have a function that has a line of code: </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=349145120-29072006>--counter //decrement counter
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080><SPAN class=349145120-29072006>The
code works this way just fine in IE. But when I went to the w3c validator it
fails me due to this line within my script; calls it an improperly formed
comment. OK, I think and proceed to enclose my script code within a CDATA block.
W3C validator says OK, script blows up in IE - wait for it, guess where, on the
CData opener and closer. So is it possible to use the decrement operator in a
script with the Strict 1.1 dtd and IE 6? If so what have I missed and other then
the obvious</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080><SPAN
class=349145120-29072006>counter = counter -1;</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080><SPAN class=349145120-29072006>Is
there a solution for this? Note telling me Firefox or Opera etc is useless the
target is IE.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=349145120-29072006>Thanks</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000080>John Warner</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>