Hi Again Angel,

Yikes! While you are correct about the simple HTML5 doctype declaration, FF 
and MSIE did not like it. MSIE would not load the page (i.e. same applet 
problem), and FF had minor formatting issues with the page that I 
originally constructed under XHTML rules. I guess this latter point does 
not surprise me.

You did solve my problem, however! This is a magic tag:

meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8"

I'm leaving tag marks off in this email because I was having some problems 
exchanging emails with tags in the email text. With the above tag, I'm back 
to using:

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";

MSIE 9 appears to be the only common browser that does not agree with my 
syntax checker on this doctype. With the emulate meta tag that you 
suggested, I can ignore MSIE 9 issues. I can never remember how to type 
emoticons, but place a very big smile here.

Otis

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Otis Rothenberger

Department of Chemistry

Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4160

http://chemagic.org


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From: "Otis Rothenberger" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] MSIE 9 

Hi Angel,

You may be correct on the style sheet. I lost in-line styles in div tags. I 
didn't believe this at first myself, but I made pages that differed only in 
the doctype declaration, and that change alone lost text-align:center and 
width:###px styles in the div tag. I did step back to HTML 4, and that was 
a mistake. I guess the surprising thing to me is that browsers are not only 
starting to enforce rules. They are not giving advanced capability if you 
do not ask for it with a doctype declaration.

I'll make the change to the simple doctype that you suggest. That would 
probably solve the div tag style issue.

I did not know about MSIE compatibility tag. I have to check into that. It 
would be a wonderful way the tell MSIE to go stand in the corner until I 
have time to deal with you - back to shoe lace washing again!

Thanks for the suggestions, Otis

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Otis Rothenberger

Department of Chemistry

Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4160

http://chemagic.org


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