Adam Hardy on 07/10/07 16:45, wrote:
> Gunlaug Sørtun on 07/10/07 02:42, wrote:
>> Notice that you have 103 validation errors in your page...
>> <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.gargantus.com/sylvie/list.html>
>>  
>>
>> ...while I have 0 - zero - in live copies of the very same page.
>>
>> Notice also that I use the correct - and strict - doctype that reflects
>> the source-code I serve.
>> You OTOH are using the wrong - and transitional - doctype.
>> Don't do that...
>> <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_25.html>
>>
>> Transitional means "almost standard" in Firefox and other non-IE
>> browsers. That "almost standard" means non-standard treatment of images
>> that are not aligned with real text in an element, which tends to give
>> one appearance in non-IE browsers and another in IE.
> 
> I see those errors - caught out by Firefox again! I used the Firefox File 
> menu 
> 'Save Page as' menu command to save that one page from the website with the 
> style sheet and the images onto my public server. Unfortunately Firefox 
> re-parsed the HTML and munged some of it, which is causing the validation 
> errors.
> 
> I used Transitional because I use Java Server Pages and some of the helper 
> code 
> I used outputs <img target='_xxxx'> HTML. I'll ditch that now and use Strict. 
> That JSP code was out-of-date anyway. I had no idea (again) that the 
> transitional doc-type had that effect.
> 
> I put the fixed version up there in the same place: 
> http://www.gargantus.com/sylvie/list.html

I forgot to say, that fixes it all nicely!


Thanks again
Adam
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