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Posted by dorayme on 02/03/07 04:33
In article
<1170472787.952166.23580@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"fuli open" <fuliopen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 3:40 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > In article
> > <1170422456.170208.152...@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> > "fuli open" <fulio...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 1, 5:17 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > > > > "The expert advice is to use HTML 4.01, but you can of course use
> > > > > > technobabble-XHTML _if_ you are careful enough to follow
> > > > > > guidelines that effectively make it HTML 4.01 with pointless
> > > > > > kludges."
> >
> > > Also, which language do html professionals like better, xhtml or html
> > > 4.01? As an amateur, following suit is the best policy.
> >
> > Just use HTML 4.01.
>
> I tested my home page with html 4 strict on the html validator, and
> was told as follows:
>
> quote
> No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
>
> This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!
> unquote
>
> In fact, I tested all the three headings, xhtml, html transitional and
> html strict, but was told that my page was not valid any. And if the
> page is not valid for any heading, do I still need to put a heading
> there? Will the heading hurt the page?
>
> The URL of the tested page is: www.pinyinology.com
>
For now, you could put in a line between <head> and </head> that
reads
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
or
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8">
Or contact your server admin and inquire how to set something on
this matter at the server end.
You cannot just change the doctype, you need to see what the
specs are for the 4.01 Strict doctype is and form your markup
accordingly. You are using a wrong "/" in some tags. This is the
style for XHTML, not appropriate here.
Come to think of it, with your marquees and embeds, perhaps
simpler for the moment for you to use a less strict doctype until
you have studied these matters further:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
or even
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/HTML32.dtd">
But aim for 4.01 Strict. This will involve some work and study.
I enjoyed looking and hearing things on your site, nice
surprises. Some things worked in some of my browsers.
--
dorayme
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