Re: trouble with headers

On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 09:10 PM, Miles Thompson wrote:

You're right Erik. Subtle, ain't it? On the other hand, look how accepting browsers are of malformed HTML. I'm inclined to think that today they see the <HTML> tag and 'think': "So, we assumed HTML anyway."

True! I suppose that it's easier to NOT code them to look for <html> tags (I think IE uses the filename extension, actually), but it couldn't be a huge addition to the code. Still, my biggest hangup with browsers is inconsistent CSS support. My page looks completely different in IE5.1 Mac, IE 5 Windows, and IE 6 Windows... and I have to say that IE 5.1 Mac renders it in the "correct" way, not version 6 as you might expect. (I think.) Browsers tolerate a little -too- much, but I do demand more than I should of HTML authors (I try to only use XHTML Strict). Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com