Re: Netscape 6 - How could you betray me!!!

by "Paul Mennega" <paul(at)mennega.com>

Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:45:58 -0500
To:	"KathyW" <kathyw(at)home.albury.net.au>, <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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As I was informed by a very helpful group member, just remove the doctype
definition, and it displays properly.  This fixed my site up nicely.  Of
course now I can't validate it with as xhtml, but you win some, you lose
some.

Paul

http://www.mennega.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "KathyW" <kathyw(at)home.albury.net.au>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 - How could you betray me!!!


> ** Reply to message from Freda Lockert <fredalockert(at)clara.co.uk> on Thu,
16
> Nov 2000 18:14:41 +0000
>
> Thank goodness, it's not just me!!
>
> Ano "no" Peter, tables makes no difference to the extra vertical spacing
N6
> adds to graphic images WHEN a DOCTYPE of
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>
> is used. I pulled my graphics out of all tables and stuck them on a page
with
> only the standard doctype, html, head, title and body tags and still they
> repelled each other.  Remove the DOCTYPE or replace it with a HTML4.x
version
> and the previously "broken" immages all close up again.
>
> I'm still looking for clues myself so any ideas appreciated. I would also
> prefer to stay with XHTML if possible.
>
> Regards,
> KathyW.
>
>
> > <snip>
> > >This is rediculous.  As many of you know, XHTML requires all tags to be
> > >closed (including <img> tags, by using the slash at the end of the
tag).
> > >Well it seems that NN6 has great difficulty with this / and is
displaying
> > >all of my images incorrectly, while nn4.7 works great.  Anyone else
having
> > >spacing/position/annoying image issues with XHTML and NN 6?
>
> <snip>
>
> > --  Just discovered that NS 6 on the Mac won't render pages using the
> > XHTML 1.0 transitional DTD, correctly. Tables break up, mouseovers
> > don't work properly. Doesn't seem to be a problem with 4.01
> > transitional. Fortunately the site is only 10 fairly simple pages.
>
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