Re: Netscape & tables

by Michael Jon Muehlendorf <haoka(at)wi.tds.net>

Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:56:36 -0600
To:	"Peter Newton" <c-newton(at)ihug.co.nz>, <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	karlnewt
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hello Peter!

Just some info....in email, most people use periods " . " before html tags
so that the email program will not interpret it AS html. It's just a safety
feature that has evolved, as far as I know, on these lists. When you see
them in sample HTML tags, you can ignore them.

HTH,

Mike

At 11:49 AM 1/16/01 +1300, Peter Newton wrote:
>Hello All,
>Just in case this is NOT one of those typos like I make quite often,
>(Validators are great :)
>I thought this use of a different DTD to solve various NN problems is one
>well worth noting.  So I scrutinised the one shown by
>Ken Lanxner <klanxner(at)home.com>
>and noticed that (besides the different http reference) mine starts like
>this:-
>
><!      but Ken's has a dot in the middle like this:-
><.!
>Is this important or just a typo?
>if its important  which is correct?
>
>What a great solution if it works!!!!
>
>Many Thanks
>Peter Newton
>
>

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