[WEB4LIB] Re: librarians using buggy browsers

[Gimon, Charles A]

First step towards validity being to add a proper DTD at the top, so the
validator knows what, if any, standard it's trying to validate against.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darryl Friesen [mailto:Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:25 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: librarians using buggy browsers
> 
> 
> > The problem I reported
> > to Bill exists in NN4.08 (one of Bill's buggies), goes away 
> in NC4.6,
> > reappears in NC4.7 and 4.73, and goes away in version 6.  
> And just for the
> > sake of argument, the problem I see when I visit 
> billdrew.net using NN4.08
> > does *not* exist if I copy the code from that page, paste 
> it into a new
> > doc, and view it locally (still in NN4.08).  Although I 
> guess I'm savvy
> > enough to run that experiment, I'm not savvy enough to know 
> why there's a
> > difference and whether it points to a buggy browser or buggy code or
> > what.  (If a browser can't handle a chunk of code, which is 
> buggy, the
> > browser or the code?)
> 
> Just for fun, I ran Bill's page through the W3C's HTML Validator
> (http://validator.w3.org/).  Yikes!!
> 
> It found a couple of unclosed SCRIPT tags, unclosed TABLE, 
> DIV etc, plus
> "Error: element "BODY" not allowed here; check which elements 
> this element
> may be contained within", which points to a larger problem.  
> Appears to be a
> problem with the JavaScript that comes before BODY (a missing quote).
> 
> 
> - Darryl
> 
>  
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>   Darryl Friesen, B.Sc., Programmer/Analyst    Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca
>   Education & Research Technology Services,     
> http://gollum.usask.ca/
>   Department of Computing Services,
>   
> University of Saskatchewan
>  
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