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the current versions of Safari wont work well with some of the message boards
So, there are still non-standard sites around?
I'd have never guessed!
Might want to use a less than most current FF, also. It is right behind Safari in the new standards compliance category... Of course, any site that uses IE proprietary html, needs to be shutdown, anyway...
Reminds me of a "conversation" with tech "support" at Constant Contact a few weeks ago. They sent our Minister of Education some html to place on our web site that presented a button that would let people sign up for a newsletter he publishes daily. (I had already complained to him that he was adding peoples addys without their knowledge. His reply was that they could always "opt out." Excuse me, that's like putting some one in jail and then saying, "Oops, we didn't know you'd not enjoy being in jail, you are free to leave, now." Apparently, he discussed this with CC and they offered a way to opt
IN.)
The code failed to pass muster with BBEdit. I cleaned most of it up easily except for the url they included. While it worked, it was still not valid for the DOCTYPE being used (plain old HTML 4.01 Transitional), pretty old, easy to work with. W3C and WDG also refused to validate it. I replaced it with a url that one gets by using theirs (not the same, of course). Validated and pleased BBEdit, of course. But I thought the least I could do was ask CC if there was some reason to use their supplied url.
First answer was that they didn't support using "APIs." OK, how did they consider plain text, FTPd to our server as an "API"? Only response was, "We don't support using any APIs". The techs name appeared to be of east asian origin. I gave up and left the 'non-standard' url in the code and moved on... I'll probably also recreate the 'button' they created using a 4 column x 3 row table! Just so the could use a 1 pixel wide/tall gif in four of the cells...and also using a Netscape Table attribute.
I'd swear their 'programmers must have been some of the first hired Netscape employees? You remember Netscape, right?
Last I heard of them was a scream as they went down the tube with AOL...
