Re: OT HTML Help

by Philipp B. Koch :: Rate this Message:

Willy Kaemena schrieb:
> I found suddenly some strange behaviour on my websites when using
> Firefox. Sometimes Firefox is not opening the page but trying to
> download it. Any idea what is wrong with these webpages?? Safari
> opens everything as expected.
>
> here a starting point for testing
> http://homepage.mac.com/wkaemena/ASIA2004/Menu286.html
Hi Willy,

I'm not a web designer, but I think there is a problem with the MIME
type. Firefox has no clue that this is supposed to be a HTML site,
because the DOCTYPE is not declared in a valid way
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctype). Try something like

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

and your site should be at least displayed. After finding and applying
the correct doctype, you might want to check your site(s) for valid
markup using a validator (for instance http://validator.w3.org/). If you
don't use correct doctype declaration and valid markup, browsers will
display them in quirks mode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks) or
even not at all.

Best regards, Philipp

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