Re: HTML Tidy pages are failing to display in Mozilla M14

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Steve Rauch wrote:

> > > All pages that I have created in HTML-Tidy output as XHTML
> > Transitional are
> > > failing to display in Mozilla M14 for Win98, as is the page
> > > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ .
> > 
> > Well, this is actually namespace bug in Mozilla. Don't worry about -- it
> > will be fixed soon (there already exists several bug reports about XHTML
> > support in Moz).
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Sorry, this is probably not a problem with tidy, but perhaps not
> too for afield for the tidy list.

As a work around I will change the default for the add-xml-pi
option to no in the next release, see line 65 in config.c

Bool XmlPi = no;            /* add <?xml?> for XML docs */


Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2000 07:19:20 UTC