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From:Pat Sherrill Date:October 1 1999 5:37pm
Subject:Re: [PHP3] RE: PHP & MySQL no display in Netscape 4.04 fine in IE 5.0
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Thanks to all,  the errant </table> tag was in an area theoretically
commented out.  The interesting point was all the table tags added up when
viewing source through Netscape or I.E..

Thanks again
Pat...

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vanboers@stripped [mailto:vanboers@stripped]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:23 PM
> > To: Dan Ray
> > Cc: Pat Sherrill; mysql@stripped; php3@stripped
> > Subject: Re: PHP & MySQL no display in Netscape 4.04 fine in IE 5.0
> >
> >
> > > Netscape >4.0 does a very rude thing when it gets a bad
> > <table> format. IE
> > > does its best to render the table with what you give it,
> > but Netscape just
> > > refuses to do anything--total blank screen where you were
> > expecting a table.
> > >
> > > Take a good hard look at anything in your php script that
> > writes table tags.
> > >
> > > Dan Ray
> > Dan,
> > A fairly short trip to w3c.org will tell you definitively that the IEs
> > allow you to cheat on html specs.  What you might also want
> > to notice in
> > IE5.0 (haven't tested IE4.x, lately), is that crazy things start to
> > happen when you ask it to parse anything without an htm/l, or ASP
> > ending.  ~:(
> >
> > Try to hit dedserius.com:10080, and, you'll see what I mean.  If you
> > want to make sure you get to it, you have to tell IE5.0
> > http://dedserius.com:10080/index.php3, or it won't know that
> > it's going
> > to a httpd server, and the php3 suffix really freaks it out.
> > I'm quite
> > disturbed by this evolution of things.  1st of all, I reserve
> > the right
> > to poke any hole in my firewall that I deem makes good
> > business sense to
> > do so.  Secondly, if my browser doesn't know to default to
> > html parsing
> > when putting something in the goto box, I'm not real thrilled with
> > whatever 2nd-guessing algorithm it's implementing.  It sure as hell
> > isn't security; this is obvious.
> >
> > My 2 cents, but, hopefully, there're a couple gotcha's in there I've
> > illuminated in dealing with the browser quirks.  They both have 'em.
> > And, there's no IE for Linux, so, I think we know where Redmond's
> > direction is on this.  I'll relentlessly code for both all-the-same.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Van
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