FP adding DOCTYPE statements etc

by "Ted Temer" <temer(at)c-zone.net>
Date:	Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:49:12 -0700
To:	"HWGBASICS" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	sunshineband koll
	todo: View Thread, Original
Lauri and Jeniffer:

I wish I had a simple and "pat" answer for how to control the meta
http-equiv line but I don't.

In fact, I have just checked over the source code of several of my own pages
and found the following on a "few" of them:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">

As I tend to use my pages as templates all the time, I have no idea where
that line came from. My FP is apparently NOT doing it as the majority of the
pages I just checked, have no DOCTYPE statement at all. And as far as I can
recall, my FP-98, (version 3.0), was the original creator of them all.
Strange???

(And please, everybody--let's leave the war over the necessity of such a
DOCTYPE statement for another time--right now we are just trying to figure
why it shows on some pages and not on others.)

The only "far out in left field" thing I can think of--is that on rare
occasions I have used the Explorer part of FP. Could it be that when saved
as a web rather than a page, different goodies are sprinkled about??

In an attempt to gather more information, I have posed this question to the
experts over on the FP mailing list. Hopefully, in a few hours we may
receive some enlightenment.

Best wishes to all
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/

P.S. In Word, when it "Auto Corrects" in error, just right click the word
and tell Word to restore it to the way you typed it. It will leave it alone
after that.


> Hello,
>
> Jeniffer wrote:
> > Well, I'm on FP2k, and it automatically inserts the following meta tags
into
> > my documents:
> >
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
> > <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
> > <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
>
> I used to use Frontpage Express (version: 2.0.2.1131) and the tags it
> automatically inserted were
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1257">
> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0">
>
> Ted, I knew about the File > Page Properties > Custom tab.
> The problem is that these tags cound NOT be removed. I could add any other
tag
> I wanted and do whatever I wanted to do with them(modify, delete). But the
tags
> above couldn't be removed.
>
> Maybe it cannot be done just because it's such an old version. I never
bothered
> to upgrade as I think that there are better editors out there. However, I
still
> use Frontpage for creating tables, forms and stuff like that(mostly
because it's
> a time-saver as many already said).
> Nowadays I always check the source code and modify it in Notepad(no matter
which
> WYSIWYG editor I use)
>
> Now if you excuse me, I have to go to school (new school season - new
Yuck! )
>
> Yours,
> Lauri
>
>
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