[FX.php List] Problem with different browser.

[Kevin Futter]

On 7/8/06 1:30 PM, "FHASELTINE at aol.com" <FHASELTINE at aol.com> wrote:

> Erik, 
> I use OS 10.4 on the Mac to do my development, and found that Window's
> browsers find my pages difficult. Usually they do not show anything on the
> page. This time I finally found a solution.
> 
> I finally found a solution to the browser problem.   I was using a Java Script
> and the Firefox did not need the following coding before the end of the script
> '//-->'    
> Putting that in fixed the problem.
> What is a puzzle to me is why and am I going to run into the difficulty with
> other browsers.
> 


This is a complex topic. The answer to your question depends on many things.
But primarily, what - if any - doctype are you using on your pages? XHTML
doctypes don't require the combo JS-HTML comments ('//-->') that were common
a few years ago, and in fact some browsers will choke on them. My advice is
just don't use them.

By the way, if you didn't have the last comment code in place, as your post
suggests, but had the first one in, then in all likelihood your script was
not running at all, which might explain your experiences. Your code
basically had errors, and all browsers will handle those errors differently.
Rather than put the last one back in, take them both out - no browser since
NN2 has really needed them.

If you use no doctype, or an invalid doctype, IE6/Win will revert to quirks
mode, and all bets are off in terms of predicted behaviour (you'll get the
broken CSS box model, that much is certain).

Web development is a complex field, even without FileMaker, FX and PHP. You
really need to come to terms with how your code works, and how different
browsers (mainly IE6 actually) will parse and render it.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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