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.

Does IE5 Mac work if you leave out the url?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

SD

> > -----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
> >
>
>
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