[thelist] missing </html> on Mac IE

Tue Mar 9 16:35:15 CST 2004

I've been slammed the past week or so, I didn't see this until today.  I am
able to view it on Safari 1.2, IE 5.2.3, Firefox .8, and Opera 6.0.3, and on
Mac OSX 10.3.2 (Panther).  It displays as a test box with the number 1 in
it.

On 3/5/04 4:27 PM, "Maximillian Schwanekamp"
<anaxamaxan at neptunewebworks.com> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if IE 5 Mac (or any Mac browser!) will fail to display a
> page with a missing </body></html> ??  Would the following still get
> displayed on Mac IE 5:
> <html>
> <head><title>Mangled HTML output</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form action="http://foo.bar" name="orderData">
> <input name="something" value="1">
> </form>
> <!--p>commented out stuff</p>
> </body>
> </html-->
> 
> This HTML was output by a shopping cart program my client uses, and I am
> trying to figure out if this is behind the problems his Mac users often
> have.
> 
> Maximillian Von Schwanekamp