[plug] OT: Sites bow to Microsoft's browser king

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:15, Andrew Furey wrote:
> Taking a look at the HTML source, there's a couple of
> things wrong with the image tag:

> (a) duplicate "img" part
> (b) backslash instead of forward slash

> Fixing these two (especially the second) would fix it
> I should think.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:11, Colin Muller wrote:
> For starters, change:
> http://www.d9450.club.rotary.org.au/rotary/images%5Cwestaustralia.gif
> (which might be this in the source HTML:
> http://www.d9450.club.rotary.org.au/rotary/images\westaustralia.gif)

> into:
> http://www.d9450.club.rotary.org.au/rotary/images/westaustralia.gif

Alex, I think you need to insist that Noel also use at least Mozilla for 
testing, and maybe throw copies of the pages at the W3C validator 
(http://validator.w3.org/) too.

To have IE interpret straight across those errors is in one way impressive but 
in another very scary. For example, the canonical way of interpreting `\w' is 
as plain `w', so I think in principle any browser should read that URL as 
http://www.d9450.club.rotary.org.au/rotary/imageswestaustralia.gif but in 
practice I think they're just barfing on the backslash (ie refusing to try 
fetching it) because there are no matching errors in your webserver's logs.

Cheers; Leon


PS, the validator currently says that it can't correctly parse the page 
because there's no character set defined, and no DTD, then croaks completely 
because `It uses a public identifier that is not in my catalog.'

Suprise, the image is broken on all of my browsers.