[thelist] Web page doesn't display in IE6

sfmalo sfmalo at msn.com
Thu Feb 7 03:21:00 CST 2002


Awhile ago someone suggested that what will really work re IE6 is to just remove the URL, the quirks mode loose one, as follows:

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

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

I'm still flying blind as I still want to test in IE5.5, and 6 will overwrite it (and my diminishing hard drive space might balk badly if I loaded on the program whereby I can use both for testing). So I have changed most of my sites to the above but don't know how they look.

Be interested to see if that works for you!

Best,
Sharon

From: "Hugh Blair" <hblair at hotfootmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:33 AM

> I don't remember what you had for the DOCTYPE since you you've
> removed it, but try this one:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>        "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
>
> -Hugh
> ____________________________
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Good spot, fixed that on a local copy of the page and tried
> > it - still no dice.  The problem seems to be with the
> > doctype - when I remove that from my local copy it displays.
> > Funny thing is all the other pages have the doctype - yet
> > ie6 still displays them?
> >
> > wierd.  Any further suggestions?

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