hi all, thought I would jump in, mainly b/c I'm a bit confused.
On 9/4/05 (2:55 ) Miguel wrote: >David Leader wrote: > >><http://doolittle.ibls.gla.ac.uk:9006/david/servlet/ProteinMotifDB> >> >>Comments on this page: 1. The DTD as html 4.01 strict is a bit of a >>cheat. Although the source code validates, the page generated will >>have applet tags that wouldn't have validated. However one point of >>validation is to pick up errors which may throw browsers other than >>the one one is developing in, so it is useful that this validates >>strict. >> sorry, I don't understand why this is particularly useful. I try to write all html pages so they validate for the given DOCTYPE (usually XHTML 1.0 Transitional); however, I think it is important to keep validation in perspective. one must jump through all manner of hoops to make widely accessible Web pages, which in the end proves more useful than validation. in a perfect world, of course, we could use OBJECT instead of APPLET, as I have been told for many years. ;-) <snip> >> >>{form tag open} {script block with button calls} {form tag close} >> >>{html block} As long as you close the script tags and enclose in a >>form the pages work ok (at least on OSX Safari and Mozilla - I >>haven't tested on IE6 windows) > >As a reminder, things must be enclosed in <form> tags because of >Safari. > why is this so? I develop everything in Safari, it being the most generally compliant browser that I know. control elements seem to work ok for me, inside or outside of the form container, as long as I am not trying to submit anything to a server script. I have more to say about the interplay between js, css, and html, but I'll start a new thread. :-) tim -- Timothy Driscoll molvisions - see, grasp, learn. <http://www.molvisions.com/> earth:usa:virginia:blacksburg "There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network." - Guy Almes ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
