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Jonathan N. Little
David said:
I think we were both thinking IE.
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Jonathan N. Little
No, use 4.01 Strict. Fix the errors don't down grade the doctype.
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dorayme
"Jonathan N. Little said:
It is a question of confidence in progressing for the OP. If you
look at the source, there is a lot on the plate to get right. A
lot of things to ditch. A lot of rethinking. That amount of
rethinking can dampen the spirit. Perhaps I was going too far in
mentioning less than transitional <g>
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Blinky the Shark
David said:There's an Outlook Express 7?
Oops.
Seriously: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/15/467901.aspx
Read. Thanks.
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fuli open
I will add either of the above two in the head area. But as there are
Chinese symbols in some of the pages, I also need to place following
meta declaration in the head:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset="gb2312"/>
Does this line conflict with either the 8859-1 or UTF-8 line? In
other words, can I put two charsets in the head area?
Thanks a million again for help.
fuli
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dorayme
"fuli open said:
Don't use /> at the end of your tags for non XHTML doctypes. And
look carefully at the placement of quotation marks in the
examples I gave.
As for more than one charset meta, I doubt it, I would say that
the last one written will be the one that counts. You might need
a single character set of a more inclusive kind. For information
about this, I am afraid you will have to wait till Mr Jukka
Korpela wakes up in Iceland. It is freezing there and he is
asleep and warm and it will be Sunday... he will know, in fact,
he is possibly the only person in the world to really know about
this.
What happens when you just put in one of the ones I suggested?
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Jukka K. Korpela
Scripsit fuli open:
You should find out which encoding you are actually using and declare that,
instead of trying random magic incantations. When people don't know their
encoding, it's usually windows-1252.
You should only declare the encoding you actually use. If you use <meta>
tags for the purpose, there can only be one such tag per document (page),
though different documents could have different encodings and consequently
different <meta> tags.
Of course. You cannot change the encoding within a document.
You should find out which encoding you are actually using and declare that,
instead of trying random magic incantations. When people don't know their
encoding, it's usually windows-1252.
You should only declare the encoding you actually use. If you use <meta>
tags for the purpose, there can only be one such tag per document (page),
though different documents could have different encodings and consequently
different <meta> tags.
Of course. You cannot change the encoding within a document.
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fuli open
I've put the html 4.01 strict declaration in many pages of the web
site, and run the html validator some of them. For instance, I got 14
errors for www.pinyinology.com, but was not able to see anything wrong
with those errors. For instance:
Error Line 403 column 6: end tag for "BODY" which is not finished.
</body>
It says the tag </body> is an error. It does not make sense to me.
The open tag <body> is there. And I have to close it with </body>. I
am still trying to figure out why the tag is an error, and how to
correct it.
I am still learning. Enlightenment is greatly appreciated.
fuli
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dorayme
"fuli open said:
You still have some xhtml type endings />s.
When I looked, nothing was said about </body>