[Crossposted and follow-ups set to
<news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html> as this has everything to do
with HTML and nothing with specific browsers or operating systems.]

In article <1fycmnk.awbws218cj1tcN%hb-jtb@dircon.co.uk>,
[email]hb-jtb@dircon.co.uk[/email] (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote:

[...]
> <http://pcnlakes.webspace.fish.co.uk/page6.html>
>
> In iCab it doesn't display at all well -- a CSS related problem. But
> the hyperlinks work.
>
> In Internet Explorer with Mac OS 9, both with 5.0(R) and the latest
> 5.1.7 of 2003/06/18, the pages look as they should. But the
> hyperlinks are dead.
>
> [...] The source code for the pages shows them to have been created
> by Serif PagePlus 8.0 HTML. They claim to be HTML 4.0 compliant.
Well, it's *not* valid HTML, as iCab's build-in HTML checker tells you
(the sad smiley in its toolbar - click it for more detailed info; next,
click each individual error for even more info).

Not only is there no doctype declaration (which means it is invalid
HTML per definition), but the HTML is just plain broken (the usual
nesting mistakes) - no matter which version of HTML it is supposed to
be.

Don't waste time/money on things that claim to be "WYSIWYG HTML" tools.
They're lying. Such tools simply cannot exist as per the nature of the
Web. Or to put it another way: if they did exist, the Web wouldn't
exist.

Learn to write HTML yourself (any text editor will do, but BBEdit and
PageSpinner make it extra easy). HTML *is* easy if you're willing to
understand the concept of "separation of content from presentation".
Then learn CSS if you want to. It's harder than HTML, but no rocket
science.


HTH

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