- From: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:47:57 -0600
- To: <html-tidy@w3.org>, "Steve Rauch" <srauch@u.washington.edu>
Steve Rauch:
> While I cannot speak to the cause of this problem in Mozilla, I do know
it
> is not limited to Mozilla. I have seen the same problem in M14 on NT and
> Linux. Although viewing source shows the HTML file, it does not display
in
> the browser. But a problem was first pointed out to me by someone running
> IE4.5 on a Macintosh. His browser displayed the raw source code.
> In all cases, the page could be displayed correctly in the browser by
> removing the xml declaration on line 1 of the file.
> Since IE4.5 is a freely distributed production version of a browser, I
> have had to back off my plans to convert all my html files to
> xhtml. Actually, I have been converting them to xhtml, and then removing
> the xml declaration.
And that is perfectly OK. If you stick to UTF-8 (or simple ASCII) your
pages will be perfectly valid and correct XHTML even without the
xml declaration.
So don't worry. Use XHTML.
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Bertilo Wennergren
<bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
<http://purl.oclc.org/NET/bertilo>
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Received on Friday, 24 March 2000 14:13:50 UTC