[Ham-Mac] ARRL web server

[Chris Smolinski]

One of the borwsers (iCab?) is very good at checking for html errors,
and puts up a happy face only if the page is 'clean'.

You're quite correct, many webmasters put up a page, test it with the
latest IE, and consider it done if it loads ok. There was some
discussion of this (on Macintouch?) regarding the USPS website, they
have lots of coding errors which stop some Mac and non-IE browsers. 

If I was into conspiracy theories, I'd say it was a plot by MS. Instead,
I presume that MS s/w engineers are just so used to dealing with buggy
code that they made sure IE was able to handle buggy html ;-)

73
Chris
N3JLY


Richard Fall wrote:
> 
> I checked the source HTML for the Members-Only landing page, and
> found that there's a serious syntax error, which *could* explain
> problems with some browser/OS combinations:
> 
> The source HTML for this page has three Javascripts--two are in
> the header, and one is in the body code.  The one in the body
> code doesn't have a closing </SCRIPT> tag.  This is certainly an
> HTML coding error;  it may or may not explain the problems
> reported.  IE is often more forgiving of syntax errors than
> Netscape.
> 
> It would be easy for the ARRL webmaster to fix this problem and
> Chuck could then test again to see if the problem went away.
> To avoid such problems in the future, any of a number of available
> tools could be used to check HTML syntax before putting up a new
> page (I use Adobe GoLive, for instance).