Well thanks Bill. I stand corrected. 

--- haggis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello Paul;
> you said .....
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Well there is a DOCTYPE but...
> >
> > If I use IE6 and try the View->Source option I get only a few lines of the 
> > code.
> >
> > But if I then try File->Save As and then view the HTML in my favorite HTML 
> > editor I do see the
> > whole code. But here is the funny thing Before the '<!DOCTYPE' statement 
> > there appears some funny
> > characters.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Actually, there is no doctype, if you run the site through the W3C validator 
> the first thing that comes up is "  Errors: 703
> No DOCTYPE Found! Falling Back to HTML 4.01 Transitional
> " ... then it proceeds to check against that.
> The reason that you get a doctype when saving is that your IE browser puts 
> it in there when you "save as" and it's an incomplete one at that .........
> "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <!-- saved from url=(0017)http://a9.com/wsg -->"
> And if you "save page as" in FF you don't get one ...
> Sorry ... :o)
> Bill.
> 
> William Haggerty
> VWH Web Services
> http://vwh.ca 
> 
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