Rant: Microsoft madness
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From: DuncanIdaho on 7 May 2008 08:55 rf wrote: > DuncanIdaho <Duncan.Idaho2008(a)googlemail.com> wrote in > news:DLednSzGep-e-7zVRVnyjgA(a)bt.com: > >>> >> Not sure what you mean by 'quirks mode' > > Then bloody google for it. You will find three hundred and seventy three > thousand references to it. Irrelevant, it was a passing comment. And don't swear at me. > >> I have this >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > The above line puts IE into quirks mode. > > Anything at all, even a comment, before the doctype puts IE into quirks > mode. > > This is one of the reasons you should not use XHTML, snip annoying stuff Really, well now I'm even more annoyed, I think I'll put a link on the front page suggesting people download Opera or Firefox. As for posting a URL, well I'm working on a company intranet behind a firewall, the network boffins laughed when I suggested they open up so I can post URLs, they are setting me up a nice isolated server so I can post stuff here. Idaho
From: DuncanIdaho on 7 May 2008 09:07 Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > DuncanIdaho wrote: > >> Not sure what you mean by 'quirks mode' >> >> I have this >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" >> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> >> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> >> >> Is that what you mean ? > > Have a look at this, please: > http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php Been there, read that, tried everything. > >> Anyway, I'm not convinced by all this error handling stuff. > > Please be convinced! > Anyway, thanks to everyone for all the input, it wasn't really an attempt to get someone else to fix my problems, I'm quite happy to try and figure it out myself (with a little help from my friends). Can't say I've changed my views in any way at the moment. Still, perhaps IE 8 will be better. Thanks again Idaho
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 7 May 2008 09:39 DuncanIdaho wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> DuncanIdaho wrote: >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" >>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> >>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> >> >> Have a look at this, please: >> http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php > > Been there, read that, tried everything. ...including changing your page to HTML 4.01 Strict? Give it a try. >>> Anyway, I'm not convinced by all this error handling stuff. >> >> Please be convinced! > > .. Can't say I've changed my views in any way at the moment. A little experimentation is always fun - and may prove useful in this case. > Still, perhaps IE 8 will be better. Hah. Don't count on it! (Oh, and lots of people are still using IE 6, y'know.) -- -bts -Friends don't let friends drive Windows
From: DuncanIdaho on 7 May 2008 11:19
> >> Still, perhaps IE 8 will be better. > > Hah. Don't count on it! (Oh, and lots of people are still using IE 6, > y'know.) > Er, yea, actually I'm ignoring that issue hoping it will go away :-| I found a nice big soft pile of sand to bury my head in. I looked at the site in IE 6 and frankly felt a little sick. Ah well, it's all character forming stuff so they tell me. Idaho |