I have been reading the discussion "Encoding of the PageTemplateFile" of Philipp, Dmitry and Fred - through the Web: till now I have only been subscribed to zope3-users. I wanted to add to that discussion, so I just joined this zope3-dev list but obviously can't do a list reply yet.
Philipp has already posted my points that I had mailed him privately and in a reply to that message Fred had asked for pointers explaining my point that IE gets confused when it sees <?xml ?> processing instructions (Freds message:). http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2005-July/014906.html I had started the original discussion on zope3-users (utf-8/latin-1 content in page templates) http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-June/000622.html and had mentioned Jeffry Zeldmans book "Designing with Web Standards" where I got my knowledge from http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/ but there many places on the internet where this problem is mentioned (do a search for doctype-switching, quirks mode, xml-prolog etc.) This is just one link that explains the problem, an article "Rendering Mode and Doctype Switching" from Holly Bergevin http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=85FEE I am citing from page 2 of this article: Caution! Internet Explorer has an unfortunate bug involving the xml declaration. If there is anything on the first line before the doctype, IE6 will switch into "quirks" mode. This means that using an xml declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) will cause the behavior. An HTML comment, even an empty one, will do the same. And quirks mode means the buggy box model etc. - So if one takes the effort to write a correct xhtml page and specifies the doctype to make the browser aware of this (doctype-switching) all this will still be useless in IE if one specifies an xml-declaration in the first line. So it should at least be possible to suppress the xml declaration in the output. simpleTAL page templates e. g. have this possibility in their expand output routine http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/ > API Documentation > Simple TAL expand has a parameter suppressXMLDeclaration. Just my 2 cents. -Andreas _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com