At 11:37 AM 5/18/01 -0400, scott [gts] wrote:
>yes. netscape is incredibly anal about tables.
Actually, it's "incredibly anal" about following the HTML
specification(s). An incomplete tag pair (ie: <TABLE> </TABLE>) is to be
_ignored_ ...similarly, unrecognized parameters inside certain tags are
ignored and the parameters that *are* recognized are utilized. This is all
according to the ideal specification. Internet Explorer, which will
attempt to ascertain what the (bad) HTML programmer meant by inserting
missing tags, etc, is the program that is not doing things correctly.
All that is to say that Netscape, at least in this instance, is doing
exactly what it is supposed to do. Internet Explorer should not display
anything within malformed or missing tag pairs.
>if you miss even one tag, the entire table
>will not show...
this is not necessarily true, unless the "one tag" you're missing is the
<TABLE> or </TABLE> tag...
>per your subject header:
>1) it's a netscape problem -- it affects 4.x, not just 6
No, it's an Internet Explorer problem. The HTML specification clearly
indicates that unrecognized and/or incomplete tags should be IGNORED. Not
_interpreted_ or _guessed_at_, but ignored.
>2) PHP is server-side. it's not repsonsible for the rendering
> of HTML by each individual browser.
this part is correct...
> if something looks ok in IE and breaks in Netscape, then it's most
> likely the browser's fault, not PHP.
I think you may mean, "if something looks okay in IE and doesn't appear
in Netscape, then it's most likely the HTML programmers fault for not
writing clean, legitimate HTML within their PHP program.
> the browser doesn't ever *see* the PHP code... so there's no way
> that a browser could ever have problems *just* with PHP.
Agreed...
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