Re: More On Alt Tag Question

by "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>

 Date:  Wed, 07 Nov 2001 10:51:46 -0500
 To:  "Ray Henderson" <Ray.Henderson(at)prodigy.net>,
"Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>,
"HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  hwg webctr 0
  todo: View Thread, Original
Ray,

Funny you should mention this. Lookie here:

http://home.att.net/~jameskass/utf8ornot.htm

Now, with that said . . . 

http://www.utf8.org/

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr20/

Seems to me like someone is a little confused . . besides just me.

<.for_those_time_pressed>
Browser Bug
</time_pressed>

HTH,
Fuzzy.


At 12:13 PM 11/7/01 , Ray Henderson wrote:
>OK, Captain  -  help me understand this if you would.
>
>
>When validating "./" with the W3C validator, it said to add the
>following META tag.
><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
>
>
>I did.  After adding this tag, the page validated & displayed correctly with
>MSIE 5.5.
>
>
>I then checked the page  with NN 4.6 just to see that all was OK there as
>well & at that time I discovered the offset,  truncated Alt tag problem.
>Just for the heck of it, I uploaded a  version of "./"  without the
>above META tag.   This page ("index2.html") displays correctly using NN 4.6.
>
>It seems to me that this META tag is causing the problem.  Can this possibly
>be true???
>
>
>Pages in question are:
>http://pages.prodigy.net/ray.henderson/index.html
>http://pages.prodigy.net/ray.henderson/index2.html
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