Netscape for Windows home page quirk

[Thomas Dowling]

I thought I posted a response to this, but I haven't seen it and it isn't
in the archive, so I'll give it another shot.

> We have several machines running Windows 3.1.1 and Netscape 2.02.  They
are
> set to default to the home page URL: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/biz/ which
> contains an HTML document with four inline graphics.

[Description of flaky browser behavior snipped.]

When in doubt, validate your HTML.  My copy of weblint finds plenty to nag
about in the above URL (see below), but the problem most likely to be
causing the problems described is that several of the <IMG> tags do not
have the URL for the SRC attribute enclosed in quotation marks.

Weblint is available online in a couple of places, but if you have access
to Perl, I recommend it as a command-line utility; check
http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~neilb/weblint/

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Weblint report
==================================

> lynx -source http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/biz/ | weblint -x netscape -
stdin(7): value for attribute BGCOLOR (#FFFFFF) of element BODY should be
quoted (i.e. BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF")
stdin(14): unmatched </A> (no matching <A> seen).
stdin(16): value for attribute WIDTH (100%) of element TABLE should be
quoted (i.e. WIDTH="100%")
stdin(17): value for attribute WIDTH (5%) of element TD should be quoted
(i.e. WIDTH="5%")
stdin(22): value for attribute WIDTH (100%) of element TABLE should be
quoted (i.e. WIDTH="100%")
stdin(24): value for attribute WIDTH (50%) of element TD should be quoted
(i.e. WIDTH="50%")
stdin(24): value for attribute SRC
(http://www.uiowa.edu/~lib/images/template/col1.gif) of element IMG should
be quoted (i.e. SRC="http://www.uiowa.edu/~lib/images/template/col1.gif")
stdin(30): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(41): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(45): </TR> on line 41 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 45.
stdin(46): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(51): </TD> on line 41 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 46.
stdin(57): illegal context, <TABLE>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(57): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(62): </TR> on line 57 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 62.
stdin(63): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(67): </TD> on line 57 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 63.
stdin(74): illegal context, <TABLE>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(74): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(78): </TR> on line 74 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 24.
stdin(83): value for attribute WIDTH (50%) of element TD should be quoted
(i.e. WIDTH="50%")
stdin(83): value for attribute SRC
(http://www.uiowa.edu/~lib/images/template/col2.gif) of element IMG should
be quoted (i.e. SRC="http://www.uiowa.edu/~lib/images/template/col2.gif")
stdin(89): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(123): </TD> on line 74 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 89.
stdin(128): illegal context, <TR>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(128): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(132): </TR> on line 128 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 132.
stdin(133): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(139): </TD> on line 128 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 133.
stdin(143): illegal context, <TABLE>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(143): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(147): </TR> on line 143 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 147.
stdin(148): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(153): </TD> on line 143 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 148.
stdin(158): illegal context, <TABLE>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(158): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(162): </TR> on line 158 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 162.
stdin(163): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(168): </TD> on line 158 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 163.
stdin(173): illegal context, <TABLE>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(173): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(177): </TR> on line 173 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 177.
stdin(178): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(183): </TD> on line 173 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 178.
stdin(188): illegal context, <TABLE>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(188): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(192): </TR> on line 188 seems to overlap <TD>, opened on line 192.
stdin(193): value for attribute SIZE (+1) of element FONT should be quoted
(i.e. SIZE="+1")
stdin(198): </TD> on line 188 seems to overlap <FONT>, opened on line 193.
stdin(203): illegal context, <TABLE>, for text; should be in TD or TH.
stdin(203): unmatched </FONT> (no matching <FONT> seen).
stdin(211): unmatched </CENTER> (no matching <CENTER> seen).
stdin(215): unmatched </TD> (no matching <TD> seen).
stdin(215): unmatched </TR> (no matching <TR> seen).