On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:20:15PM -0400, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:

i'm trying to look at the .html version of #15701, which i downloaded as a zip file to my own machine, and it seems to require an open internet connection. it wants to call the w3 or something. why?

I don't know. It doesn't for me. It's conceivable--just-- that your browser is trying to pre-fetch the W3 DTD as defined in the DOCTYPE declaration, but it's the first time I ever heard of something like that happening. And the same declaration is in lots of texts; nothing new or strange about this one. I'm glad you mentioned it, though, because when I posted it last night, I made a final one-character change and instead of copying it to /gut, I copied it to gut, which resulted in my uploading both the real file and a copy of it with the change named "gut". I've fixed and reuploaded.

even with such a connection, it won't display in ie5.1. works in opera 5, but not internet explorer. why not?

I have really given up trying to figure out why IE, any version, doesn't work right, so you're on your own there! I can tell you that it displays fine in my IE 6, Mozilla, K-Meleon . . . even Lynx. :-)

and the .html version of #15698 won't work in either one...

That one is more interesting; it doesn't have a terminating HTML comment mark after the <style>. However, the W3C validators have no problem with it, and the parse tree is recognized, and I've given up trying to track all the ways that foreign command-sets or languages can be embedded in HTML. Maybe a newer browser will help. What is Opera on now? 8? jim