Re: OT HTML Help

by Willy Kaemena-2 :: Rate this Message:

Thanks a lot for the help.

my HTML generating software wrote in the header

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">

and I changed it to:

<meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>

now it works in Firefox... dont ask me why....

Willy Kaemena

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On Jun 29, 2009, at 1:30, Philipp B. Koch wrote:

> 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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