Probs w/Browser viewing of my sites

NWB

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Nov 13, 2003, 1:03:59 PM11/13/03

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I'm writing HTML in Notepad. The sites work fine in Internet Explorer
on a PC, and in Netscape on a Mac, but don't run in Explorer on a Mac,
or Netscape 6.1 on a PC. I've checked the coding, and tried it on a
number of different computers at the college- opening the pages on
PC's both from disk and on the server, and on Macs from the server
only. It doesn't seem to matter what tags I use, even plain pages-
w/out images, links, frames, or tables don't run. I get either the
coding displayed in the browser, w/a weird symbol added in front " яю
", or, the symbol, then the code, interspaced w/plus signs and other
symbols. When I view the source, the same thing appears, though most
of the symbols are those spacing squares. I am working toward a carrer
in web design, but this problem is raising second thoughts. HELP!!

Allen Windhorn

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Nov 13, 2003, 2:09:41 PM11/13/03

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nbea...@cs.clark.edu (NWB) writes:

> I'm writing HTML in Notepad. The sites work fine in Internet Explorer
> on a PC, and in Netscape on a Mac, but don't run in Explorer on a Mac,

> or Netscape 6.1 on a PC...

There are some web sites that will check your code and provide a
critique. I can look through my notes if you can't find them. You
might post a bit of your code for people to look at.

Make sure it's really Notepad and not Wordpad. Maybe extraneous bytes
are getting into the code somehow.

Allen

NWB

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Nov 13, 2003, 9:17:10 PM11/13/03

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It is definitely Notepad. Funny thing is, I tried out FastPage, and
sites built in it work just fine. Maybe I can run the coding from all
of my other sites through FastPage to clean them up somehow.

Here's a bit of my problem code:

<html><head><title>Thankyou For Visiting My Sites!</title></head>
<body><div align="center"><h2>Thanks for visiting.
<br>Please let me know what you think by e-mailing me at:<br>
<a href="mailto:nbea...@cs.clark.edu" title="Nathan
Beatty">nbea...@cs.clark.edu</a><br>Thanks again!<br>
<i>Nathan Beatty</i></h2></div></body></html>

http://cs.clark.edu/~nbeat1152

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Lars

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Nov 18, 2003, 8:00:22 AM11/18/03

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Check the HTML with the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/)
That might give some clues.

Myself, I depend a lot on HTML tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)
to clean up my pages and catch typos or general tagging weirdness.

-Lars

NWB

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Nov 19, 2003, 12:49:21 PM11/19/03

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Thanks for the link to the HTML tidy site. As for the W3C validator,
that thing is EVIL. Have you ever tried to find a website that passes
their tests?

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Lars

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Nov 24, 2003, 8:12:31 AM11/24/03

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Well, my sites pass their tests. ;)

It is rather strict, but it's one of the best way's to increase
the odds that any browser now or in the foreseeable near future
can use the page. Of the two, I use Tidy the most and usually
only try the W3C validator during the late beta phase.

If you have Dreamweaver or Xmetal, there are built-in validators
which is much faster than calling one via the net. Some other
site editors may also have them.

-Lars

NWB

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Nov 24, 2003, 7:00:53 PM11/24/03

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I finally figured out the problem. I've been saving the code as
Unicode, as my instructor told me {at least, I think he did}. When I
when back and saved everything as ANSI, it worked. A rather simple
fix, but the last thing I thought to check.
Thanks for the help.

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