- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:05:04 -0700
- To: Brian Kelly <b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Cc: webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net, "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 07:12 AM 10/19/1999 , Brian Kelly wrote: > Many thanks for the comments. Have now fixed all but 2 of the HTML >errors (still need to add a doctype Hi, the doctype should be HTML 4.0 Transitional for most people, HTML 4.0 Strict if you are using _no_ presentational markup at all. (I advise, for now, that Transitional be used; in fact, this is what's used on the HTML Writers Guild site _and_ the W3C site.) The doctype statements are: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> ...for 4.0 Strict, and <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> ...for 4.0 Transitional These go as the very first thing in your HTML document. >and not sure what to do about the >URL encoding which the validator doesn't like). The problem here is that you have something that looks like ...nfp.htm&ref=&a=1&name.x=83&name... You need to encode all the ampersands (&) properly, or else it thinks &... is the start of an HTML entity, such as < or ©. The way to do this is to use the & entity wherever you have used & above. Now, that may sound wrong, and you may worry that it will break things, but don't -- it will work fine! So the snippet of text above would instead be: ...nfp.htm&ref=&a=1&name.x=83&name... >The CSS has now been tidied up. >Unfortunately the display bug still appears in Netscape :-( >I guess I'll have to get into how browsers support CSS parse trees, or >provide some user-agent negotiation. Netscape is very buggy when it comes to CSS, but fortunately many of these bugs are known and publicized. For a list of CSS implementation issues, please see: http://webreview.com/pub/guides/style/mastergrid.html -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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