Browser problems

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Browser problems

Which HTML version to validate against?

jrfurman

3:58 pm on Apr 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm having problems with people not being able to view my pages.

One particular is Mac OS 8.6, browser Internet Explorer 1.5.6 (What html version is this for?)

Is there any sites that I can validate my code through for the different broswers?

I'm using Dreamweaver MX, it has a validator but doesn't seem to be catching the errors.

Also I'm having problems with firewalls that don't like cookies or session ids, is there any other method to maintain 'state' between a browser and the server?

Thanks

leoo24

5:07 pm on Apr 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

have you tried [validator.w3.org...]

jrfurman

6:14 pm on Apr 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Yes I hate to think they can't view my pages because I left a few alt's out on my images.

Thanks though.

ShawnR

11:11 pm on Apr 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Pardon my ignorance, but are the version numbers for IE on Macs totally different from on PCs? V1.5.6 sounds very old.

Shawn

leoo24

6:04 pm on Apr 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

no i don't think alt's will cause the problem lol

i do agree however with shawnr that the ie version does sound old, actually i don't know it! I've got ie5 on my mac (OSX though)

jrfurman

6:27 pm on Apr 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Well I'm totally out of the Mac world so I don't know....boy oh boy.

I've pages that are totally W3C compliant with no cookies or referrers and they're still having problems.

Will these items cause any problems:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
(I know what they are...)
?

Thanks for everyone's input

g1smd

8:24 pm on Apr 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

They shouldn't cause any problems; but you should also play around with using the full version of the !DOCTYPE as well as that shortened version.

DrDoc

1:28 am on Apr 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

Either way, there never was an IE 1.5.6 for Mac. Browser Archive [browsers.evolt.org]
So, it's probably 5.1.6 they mean. Did they tell you why they can't view the pages?