[thelist] dhtml on mac/ie5

Tue Aug 28 18:22:14 CDT 2001

>IE5 is much more strict about how it handles code - particularly if a
>DOCTYPE is provided. Do things work better/different without a DOCTYPE?
>
>I've had good luck doing 1 of these:
>    -- make sure the code is crystal clear and validated
>or -- remove the DOCTYPE.
>
>The latter is what I did on the last site I worked on. i gritted my
>teeth and did it. For the next rev though, I have some better code in
>place, and I think the doctype will be back.

for some reason msie 5.0/mac likes:

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

more than it likes:

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

that has fixed all errors that i've encountered with javascript 
errors being thrown from dhtml.

party party.

-louis

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