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In article <ekht43$qsb$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Douglas de Lacey  <del2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>An appeal directed only to those with time on their hands ...

Well, that's not me but...

>I've been told that one of my web pages (home page of 
><http://www.camantsoc.org/>) is not rendering correctly in IE7. All the 
>layout disappears. It (and its css) passes the W3C validation checks, 
>and renders fine in other browsers, so I assume it is some IE silliness; 
>but oddly other pages written to the same template and with the same css 
>apparently work fine. If anyone would like to verify that IE7 (or any 
>other version or browser) doesn't like my page I'd be grateful, and 100 
>extra brownie points to anyone who can offer a fix.

You have a missing '>' on the end of your 3rd <meta> tag - the one
just before the stylesheet link.

Jon.

Douglas de Lacey wrote:
> An appeal directed only to those with time on their hands ...
> 
> I've been told that one of my web pages (home page of 
> <http://www.camantsoc.org/>) is not rendering correctly in IE7. All the 
> layout disappears. It (and its css) passes the W3C validation checks, 
> and renders fine in other browsers, so I assume it is some IE silliness; 
> but oddly other pages written to the same template and with the same css 
> apparently work fine. If anyone would like to verify that IE7 (or any 
> other version or browser) doesn't like my page I'd be grateful,

I can verify that it is displayed broken.

 > and 100
> extra brownie points to anyone who can offer a fix.

Well I can confirm that applying Jon's fix to a local copy fixes it.

jw35@cus.cam.ac.uk (Jon Warbrick) writes:

> In article <ekht43$qsb$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
> Douglas de Lacey  <del2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>An appeal directed only to those with time on their hands ...
>
> Well, that's not me but...
>
>>I've been told that one of my web pages (home page of 
>><http://www.camantsoc.org/>) is not rendering correctly in IE7. All the 
>>layout disappears. It (and its css) passes the W3C validation checks, 
>>and renders fine in other browsers, so I assume it is some IE silliness; 
>>but oddly other pages written to the same template and with the same css 
>>apparently work fine. If anyone would like to verify that IE7 (or any 
>>other version or browser) doesn't like my page I'd be grateful, and 100 
>>extra brownie points to anyone who can offer a fix.
>
> You have a missing '>' on the end of your 3rd <meta> tag - the one
> just before the stylesheet link.
>

"Web rendering problem not entirely the fault of IE shock" :)


I kind of like xhtml, then editors/validators pick more of these kind
of things up for you.

Paul Rudin wrote:
> jw35@cus.cam.ac.uk (Jon Warbrick) writes:
> 
>> In article <ekht43$qsb$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
>> Douglas de Lacey  <del2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> An appeal directed only to those with time on their hands ...
>> Well, that's not me but...
>>
>>> I've been told that one of my web pages (home page of 
>>> <http://www.camantsoc.org/>) is not rendering correctly in IE7. All the 
>>> layout disappears. It (and its css) passes the W3C validation checks, 
>>> and renders fine in other browsers, so I assume it is some IE silliness; 
>>> but oddly other pages written to the same template and with the same css 
>>> apparently work fine. If anyone would like to verify that IE7 (or any 
>>> other version or browser) doesn't like my page I'd be grateful, and 100 
>>> extra brownie points to anyone who can offer a fix.
>> You have a missing '>' on the end of your 3rd <meta> tag - the one
>> just before the stylesheet link.
>>
> 
> "Web rendering problem not entirely the fault of IE shock" :)
> 
> 
> I kind of like xhtml, then editors/validators pick more of these kind
> of things up for you.
> 

I'd agree with moving to xhtml to enhance this validation, but don't
rely on the W3C validation.  In my Firefox (with various validation
plugins) a simple view source highlights the meta tag and produces the
warning 'line 7 column 1 - warning: <meta> missing '>' for end of tag.

It doesn't indicate what the upshot of the error would be though.  For
that the 'Total Validator' plugin can be configured to provide multiple
screenshots on different systems and using different browsers.

Richard

richo wrote:
> Paul Rudin wrote:
> 
>>jw35@cus.cam.ac.uk (Jon Warbrick) writes:
>>>You have a missing '>' on the end of your 3rd <meta> tag - the one
>>>just before the stylesheet link.
>>>
>>I kind of like xhtml, then editors/validators pick more of these kind
>>of things up for you.
>>
> 
> 
> I'd agree with moving to xhtml to enhance this validation, but don't
> rely on the W3C validation.  

3 very helpful responses, thank you. Yes if I were writing it today I'd 
certainly use xhtml and one day I'll revise it.

> In my Firefox (with various validation
> plugins) a simple view source highlights the meta tag and produces the
> warning 'line 7 column 1 - warning: <meta> missing '>' for end of tag.
> 
> It doesn't indicate what the upshot of the error would be though.  For
> that the 'Total Validator' plugin can be configured to provide multiple
> screenshots on different systems and using different browsers.

That's useful too. Thanks specially to Jon for the sharp eye: hopefully 
the site is now all fixed.

Douglas de Lacey

Douglas de Lacey wrote:
> An appeal directed only to those with time on their hands ...
> 
> I've been told that one of my web pages (home page of 
> <http://www.camantsoc.org/>) is not rendering correctly in IE7. All the 
> layout disappears. It (and its css) passes the W3C validation checks, 
> and renders fine in other browsers, so I assume it is some IE silliness; 
> but oddly other pages written to the same template and with the same css 
> apparently work fine. If anyone would like to verify that IE7 (or any 
> other version or browser) doesn't like my page I'd be grateful, and 100 
> extra brownie points to anyone who can offer a fix.
> 
> Douglas de Lacey

You can get screenshots for a range of browsers from browsershots.org. 
They didn't offer IE7 when I looked last week, but they do have IE/Win, 
various Linux and Safari for Mac.

Seems like a good service.

Nik