Re: Page won't load Netscape 4

by "Gary Krockover" <gary(at)garykrockover.com>

 Date:  Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:09:42 -0500
 To:  <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 References:  julianasnetwork ntlworld
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>
> In HTML 4.01, the closing tags for td and tr are optional. If Netscape 4
> chokes on this, then Netscape 4 is at fault :)
>

I think you might want to double check your HTML standards, </tr> & </td>
are certainly not "optional" tags.


> ON a more practical note, missing </tr> and </td> tags are probably what
is
> causing the problem. In addition, I would make sure that the page
> validates. Debugging problems with Netscape 4 is hard enough with valid
> code, let alone invalid. Remember that _everywhere_ an & appears, you must
> use &amp; instead, even if it is in an href attribute.
>

This is incorrect also.  I use "&" all the time in dynamic programming for
href:
search&db=somedatabase.db&eqskudatarq=1&...

I _never_ use &amp; in the href because _that_ breaks my search context.

> Andrew
>

You have a very nice looking site there, too bad you won't take the time to
add a few closing tags for the tables so that NN 4 visitors can view it.

GK

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