In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jimmy Lewis) wrote:
> I have a project where the CGI form is being displayed in Netscape as raw > HTML but in IE it works fine. Are you familiar with this problem? which version of netscape does your form pass the validator test at http://validator.w3.org/ for being clean html or xhtml? what version of CGI.pm are you using on the remote site? (2.78 is current) #!perl #test.cgi use CGI; print header(), start_html(), div({-align=>'center'}, h3("CGI Version"), h4($CGI::VERSION) ), end_html; most of todays web browsers don't fully support HTML 4 which is, IMHO akin to not fully supporting ASCII, a basic minimalistic standard. it's NOT as complex as xhtml, and I don;t expect all of today's so-called-"modern" browsers to support it, although I firmly believe they should be held at gunpoint until they do, but support for HTML 4 (which has been released and "standard" since 1997) is mandatory. far far too many web-designers haven't "gotten" the fact that <center></center> is deprecated and should instead be replaced with the division center tag <div align="center"></div>, even. It's pitiful. Here we are racing madly ahead with every other technology possible, EXCEPT that which makes coding web-pages easier, more standardized, encouraging straightforward practices that lead to cleaner code particularly in light of xhtml's requirements... but what are we doing? living in the stone-age of HTML back from before 1997. Everyone's SO scared of scaring customers with broken web-browsers away from their sites, that they practically ENCOURAGE the browser manufacturers to continue their sloppy practices. "I curl my lip at you, you shoddy browser-manufacturing-person." *snicker* :D -- Scott R. Godin | e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laughing Dragon Services | web : http://www.webdragon.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
