[Glastonbury] March poster

Andrew M.A. Cater amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk
Sat Feb 21 16:38:04 GMT 2004


On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:32:41AM +0000, Kelvin McNulty wrote:
> On Thursday 12 February 2004 20:20, Sean Miller wrote:
> > Anyone else apart from Martin and Duncan bothered to look at the LUGOG site
> > I created? http://www.lugog.org.uk
> 
> He runs on Windows and as soon as he accessed the LUGOG site his browser (a 
> recent IE on Windows 2000) started throwing errors. It was just a little 
> embarrassing as he knows I am fussy about standards... he made some comment 
> about non-standards complient Linux browsers... and I know this is an issue 
> because I do find that Konqueror, Mozilla and Netscape (the three browsers 
> that I have) do render things very differently from each other.
Reads OK in Links / Mozilla Firebird / Konqueror / IE 6 on Windows 98

> 
> So I went to the Validator at w3c at
> 
> http://www.w3.org click HTML Validator
> 
Same here :(
> I think that if we want other people (most of whom run on Windows) to be able 
> to look at our site we should fix it so it complies with the Web's standards 
> with which even Microsoft have to comply. I am willing to have a look at it 
> but have no knowledge whatsoever of Mambo. I imagine that to fix it would 
> mean modifying Mambo's scripts, which could be a right minefield... maybe the 
> level on which it should be tackled is by submitting a bug report to the 
> Mambo writers.
Always best to hand check generated HTML if you can.
W3C validators are good here.

Andy



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