on 6/16/01 8:25 PM, Paolo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
>>
>> Can you test this site please: www.e-2-door.com
>>
> Done.
>
>> It's got some borloloy that needs IE 5 or IE 5.5 or Netscape 4.76
>>
>> I only have Mozilla 0.7 for now.
>>
> Yep, the site has a header that says:
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>www.e-2-door.com</title>
> <meta NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Microsoft Visual Studio">
> <meta NAME="Developer" CONTENT="stag philippines, inc">
>
> BUT it does not have a valid DTD header before the <html> tag. Something
> like this:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>
> So, the world's biggest compilation suite does not even know how to
> construct a valid DTD.
> In violation of the W3. Ergo, the programmer who worked on the site does
> not know how to make one either, or he could have retouched the header.
>
Actually it probably does but someone probable made an erroneous template.
> I've done some reading and testing of mozilla over the weekend and I
> found out that it does not try to be everything for everybody.
> G.I.G.O. If a page does not have a valid DTD, mozilla uses a different
> mode to read it.
> But if it does, it renders the page beautifully.
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