It seems that there is a problem with older (ie. Netscape 3, M$IE, etc.) web browsers displaying the source code (!!!) of web pages instead of rendering them if they use the (proper) XML declaration at the top of the page. Of course, I had no way of knowing this until someone in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html pointed it out. The offending declaration has been removed from my code, and since these pages are all conforming UTF-8 (heh heh) it is still valid XHTML 1.0. Happy surfing! (I must point out here that Lynx had no problems rendering …

Over the past few days (it is May 15 2000 while I write this) I have been converting many of my old "HTML tricks" (which are allowed by the standards) to the proper way of doing things: Cascading Style Sheets. In doing this, I have noticed that many web browsers out there just aren't up to snuff. Netscape Communicator 4.x, for example, seems to think that URLs specified in stylesheets should be relative to web pages, and not the stylesheets themselves. The CSS standard says "Thou shalt make all URLs relative to the style sheet" and Communicator just blindly …

As promised, I've finished upgrading the old almost-HTML I had been using to XHTML 1.0 (transitional). This was a fairly easy task. The hard part was getting WML to generate my XHTML code. However, using WML I can create consistent and valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional markup. Add in a little CSS and you get pages which look pretty much the same in any web browser, from Netscape Communicator, to Mozilla, Konqueror, and M$IE, and even Lynx! In fact, it has been my hope all along to make The Home of AlexDW accessible to people using non-graphical web …