Swiki pages appear blank in Netscape

Tue Mar 31 13:27:37 UTC 1998

ocit.inc wrote:
> 
> I am experiencing a very interesting bug. I have setup a site that employs
> the Squeak PWS and Swiki technologies. Anyhow, in Netscape 3.0 the pages in
> question are not rendered i.e. I get a blank page. The browser seems to
> locate and read the file since the html source is viewable and in apparent
> order but the browser just refuses to render the page.
> 
> Here is the URL in question. The server is up most of the time and again
> appears fine with IE 4.0 :
> 
> http://www.ocit.com:8090/SwikiStug
> 
> In Netscape I get a blank page. However , if a view the document source the
> following is provided:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> 
> <TITLE>Front Page</TITLE>
> 
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
>  <background="http://www.ocit.com/stug/_themes/technolo/tecbkgnd.gif"
> bgcolor="#669999" text="#000000" link="#990000" vlink="#333300"
> alink="#FF9900"><!--msnavigation--><table border="0" cellpadding="0"

Here is your trouble:  table         ^^^^^^^

As Tansel Ersavas wrote:
> 
> Check <TABLE> and </TABLE> mismatches in the generated code, 95% of page
> no shows on Netscape is due to them

If you check the rest (I am not resending it) you'll see there
is no </table> - in fact there is a <tr><td> but no </td> </tr>.
If you add </td></tr></table> in somewhere (but be careful where.
not in the middle of the form, for example) you should see it work
in netscape too.
> 
> The only differece between this document and the standard file that is
> supplied with the PWS and Swiki demos is that I have added a scrolling
> marquee and other minor variations.
> 
> If anybody understands why this is occuring and how it may be corrected
> please let me know.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Charles
> OCIT

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