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Re: [LUG] html philosophy question

 

Dave Morgan wrote:
> As I now have the new web server back up and running, I thought I
> would simplify the maintenance needed to update the html files by
> putting all the html head info in one php file, and all the tail
> stuff in another.

Sounds sensible.

Apache also offers a header/foot option to do this, which can easily
support different files for different languages. Should you ever want to
get more sophisticated.

> All pages validate as strict html and display correctly in
> Firefox.

Sounds good.

> I notice when viewing in IE8 the main body of each page does not
> display, even though the text that should be there is visible
> when I 'view source'.
> 
> question: Should I care?

I would fix it just to stop it being irritating, although quite a lot of
my own site doesn't work as well in IE, that is largely Microsoft's
choice ;)

Only things that leapt out was the empty "div" in the footer (it has
empty links in), and I've never seen anyone use content-Style-type meta
tags (and you don't seem to rely on it on the front page anyway).

Don't have IE to hand to test it I'm afraid. Other than those the 100%
heights on body and html make me nervous with IE, if nothing else it
tends to go a bit mad with scrollbars when things fit exactly. And
you've used a table layout for a layout that really would be simple with
CSS.

 Simon



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