Re: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread James Ellis
Hi Adam There is a quite a large bug in IE that has been around for a long time concerning accept headers the browser sends to the server. For those who don't know what the accept header is - it just tells the server what mime types the User Agent can handle. IE sends correct headers to the ser

Re: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Justin French
On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 08:51 PM, Rob Halff wrote: 5. Probably you want to close the open tag here (see point 3). So make it s cannot appear within s in XHTML strict. ... ... not ... Justin French * The discussion list for http:

Re: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Cheong
Well Chris, you don't really have to know anything about XHTML. There are no more than 10 rules including the and closing all tags. Things like no captials letters except for values. Easy stuff. And as long as you write using those simple rules, and include that DTD thing (just copy and paste

RE: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi Adam, To send the header, I believe it is I use for XML and RDF AGLS harvest control lists and metadata. e.g.: http://gtconnect.webboy.net/meta/index.cfm (HCL) and http://gtconnect.webboy.net/meta/metadata.cfm (metadata for other documents that can't hold embedded AGLS data). Not sure about

RE: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey Rob, Wow thanks for all that help! I don't really know how to code XHTML... I mean I don't know the difference - I do know that it requires everything to close like: and weird stuff like that... I think at the moment I would rather stick to HTML - just because I find it easier... and I don't

[WSG] Some links for early January...

2004-01-03 Thread russ weakley
Hi all, Hope you have had a good break. Some links on web standards stuff (apologies if you have seen these before): 1. WhitesSpace - "Single or multiple style sheets" - a simple article that has sparked some very interesting comments: http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/web_mastering/stylesheets_s

Re: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Adam Carmichael
Rob Halff wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en"> And since your using PHP, add this to your template, or what have you, to make sure that the webserver sends the appropriate Content-Type if the UA can read XHTML. (Just as a tidbit

Re: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Halff
Ok, your lucky I'm in a helping mood :-) Not many things have to be done to make you site XHTML strict. I will only go throught the first page of your site:" 1. Change the doctype and head from: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> to: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> http:

Re: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Halff
Ok, your lucky I'm in a helping mood :-) Not many things have to be done to make you site XHTML strict. I will only go throught the first page of your site:" 1. Change the doctype and head from: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> to: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> http:

Re: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Halff
you are not closing your tags.   I should be: NEWS ITEM HERE   Maybe you could upgrade your site to XHTML Strict instead of HTML4.1 transitional, that way you can be more sure if it's a css problem or just a case of bad html.   Greeting,   Rob Halff   - Original Message - From:

[WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Stratford
Ok… Internet Explorer Bug here… How can I get around this…   www.neester.com   the NEWS REEL at the bottom… the background is meant to be YELLOW!! With a dotted border…   In my IE (v6) it doesn’t work… It only works when you hightlight the text, or when you scroll over it (like h