Topic: Netscape 4 (Page 1 of 1)

I'm trying to figure out why the index page of my new site works www.labelsinc.com, but the internal pages don't in Netscape 4. Here is the internal page I've been trying to get working www.labelsinc.com/prepress.html. If you view source it sees the contents of the entire page, but it's just not displaying it in the browser. Any ideas. I don't care if it works in that browser, but my boss does.

I don't really design for ns4 anymore, but one thing I do remember is that forgetting one closing tag and the page refused to render. Without reading the source a tip is to really check and double check the closing tags and correct nesting (there is a lot of nesting going on there...) to see if you can solve it that way.
/Dan

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DmS is right. If you have a copy of DreamWeaver, you should open your page in it as it highlights the incorrect tags.

Honestly if your boss cares about the visibility of his site in NN4, I wonder why it let you do a table based layout with some spacer gif and an image based navigation ( with no alt nor text equivalent ) that is real nightmare to browse in Lynx and ultimately in any browser for disabled persons.

Your HTML page weighs ~16 Kb, though there's less than 2 Kb of text, and almost your images ( weighing ~120 Kb ) are in .JPG though most of them would be way smaller in .GIF. Actually your boss may care about NN4 but it seems he doesn't care about the bandwidth costs.

To make it short : the web standards are the way to go.

The validator is your friend -

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.labelsinc.com/prepress.html

quote:

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Line 573, column 6: end tag for "TABLE" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this

</BODY>

&#9993;
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Line 72, column 14: start tag was here

<!--Table 2--><TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>

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Tell your boss that with an error list like that, compliance with an absurdly outdated browser is the last thing that needs to be worried about here!!

Aaaaaaaaaah! I had a nightmare where a guy was stabbing me in the head a few weeks back. Could I have that guy back please? 182 errors? Good thing the whole site isn't complete. Let that be a lesson to me. Gurrrgle. Throw me that floatation device can you? I wonder if this paragraph validates.

Luckily most of them are missing 'alt' tags for the iamges which is easy to fix.

The missing clsoign tag for that table is msot likely your culprit for the nn4 issue though.