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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/18/07 09:25
erkkikosonen wrote:
> I find these ancient rules better than those of today. Why does
> everything have to be new and fancy?
Try HTML 4.0 Strict. It was published (if I recall correctly) in 1997 so
it should satisfy your desire for something ancient.
If you avoid using the following elements:
<link rel="stylesheet">
<style>
<script>
<applet>
<object>
<iframe>
then you should be able to produce pages that work flawlessly even on
Mosaic 1.0. (Trust me: I do test extensively in old browsers. I have
a beta of Mosaic 0.6 for testing.)
When it comes to supporting really old browsers, if you author as above,
the real problem you're likely to hit against is that many of them only
support HTTP/1.0 and do not send an HTTP "Host" header as part of their
requests. (The "Host" header was optional in HTTP/1.0, but is required in
HTTP/1.1. Mosaic didn't start sending this header until 2.x IIRC.) If
you're using shared hosting, this will mean your site is completely
inaccessible to older browsers -- the HTTP is the problem, not the HTML.
--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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