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Senez
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I'm uploading this website that someone made onto my group's web space and for some reason, it's not loading correctly in firefox. Works fine in IE. Any ideas? It's like it doesn't even try to load it, it just displays the source code.

http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/aqforecasting/icap

6/19/2007 9:06:02 AM
BobbyDigital
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weird, same thing in safari.

I saved the file, and the default filename it wanted to save it as was "index.shtml.txt"

so I removed the ".txt" and got a dialog box:

"The name “index.shtml” appears to have an extension. Do you want to append “.txt” to the name?"

i then selected no, and it saved it as index.shtml. Then I tried to open that with safari and firefox, and it displays the page (sans images of course, since it's locally sourced). I don't know why it's doing that, since the file does not have a .txt extension, but that may be a clue.

6/19/2007 9:26:57 AM
Noen
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http://validator.w3.org

Big problem is you have no doctype, so browsers are trying to guess what the page format it.

Also looks like you have some major code problems.

[Edited on June 19, 2007 at 9:35 AM. Reason : ^%#& link]

6/19/2007 9:33:55 AM
Senez
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Yeah, I'm not sure how or what they used to code it, but it's pretty strange. When I unzipped the package they sent me, all the .shtml files showed up as .txt files, which I thought was odd. I'm going to play around with it some more, but we'll have to see.

On another note, isn't this a valid doctype statement:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

?

It's in the *.shtml files, but wasn't in the index.html, put one in, and still nothing.

[Edited on June 19, 2007 at 10:15 AM. Reason : ]

6/19/2007 10:00:52 AM
Senez
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Okay, so I took care of all the errors the validator was finding and it now says it's validated blah blah, but it still won't load in firefox. is there something wrong with their .shtml files?

6/19/2007 10:48:08 AM
Senez
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Oh well, there's no fixing it, at least not on my end. My job wasn't to make it compatible anyway.

6/19/2007 11:43:46 AM
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