[thelist] XHTML and Netscape 6

Rob Smith rob.smith at THERMON.com
Wed Nov 13 13:28:02 CST 2002


I just read W3schools.com XHTML this morning to see what it was all about
and one the main rules that I read and remembered is that even empty tags
must be closed.
i.e. (n.n. bad joke):
<td bgcolor="#4B8E29" width="140" height="1"><img
src="/images/pixel_4B8E29.gif" width="140" height="1" alt="" /></td>
<td bgcolor="#4B8E29" width="160" height="1"><img
src="/images/pixel_4B8E29.gif" width="160" height="1" alt=""></td>
This happes often in your code. Be sure to close and nest all tags properly,
even the empty ones like above.

Try that,

Rob.Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne-Marie [mailto:a-m at ctsg.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:29 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] XHTML and Netscape 6


All right, this is my first post after joining the list in September, so
here goes:
Everytime I use an XHTML declaration, it break up the design see
http://dev.headsup.ctsg.com/about/

I have tried any number of permutations see code below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd ">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<!--- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> --->

Used the <?xml etc> with transitional, then with strict. Didn't use it all,
used the <html xmlns="etc"> in the same manner but nothing seems to work. As
soon as I remove any reference to XHTML the page loads correctly. I have
Netscape 6.2 by the way. A lot of our clients still use Netscape 4.7, and I
used to think that whatever works in 4.7 will work anywhere, but not in this
case. Can anyone shed some light?

Anne-Marie Feldman
Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group
Phone: 541-302-3344
http://www.ctsg.com/


--
* * Please support the community that supports you.  * *
http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/

For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester
and archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org
Workers of the Web, evolt !



More information about the thelist mailing list