RE: [Dynapi-Dev] W3C DOCTYPE interferes with DynAPI

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Same thing happens on IE5 Mac, but you get vague error messages (ie. error
on line 600, but your document only has 400 lines). No doctype, and
everything works fine.

-bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dyn...@li...
> [mailto:dyn...@li...]On Behalf Of Dann
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:36 PM
> To: dyn...@li...
> Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] W3C DOCTYPE interferes with DynAPI
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just spent a boring two hours debugging DynAPI code on NS6, only to
> discover that nothing was wrong with the code. Instead, NS6's
> interpretation of the DOCTYPE at the beginning of the HTML file :
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
>
> caused DynAPI to stop functioning without errors.
>
> If I remove it, it works as with all the other browsers. The file can be
> perfectly validated as a HTML 4.01 document, for which the DOCTYPE tag
> is imperative.
>
> Does NE1 have any idea why this happens on NS6 ?
>
> CU,
>  Dann
>