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Sep 14, 2006, 22:53 #1SitePoint Addict
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What kind of problem is that ?????
Could you plese have a look at http://m-ap.com/Pembridge-Square.html
I haven't come accross this before: In different browser it displays it displays differently- some as it should and in some it doesn't.
Somehow I suspect that it has something to do with character encoding, but I can't be sure. In FF it changes when I switch from Unicode UTF-16 Big Endian to Western (iso-8859-1).
The page should really display just the same way as http://m-ap.com/Pembridge-Square.html does, for example, instead it either displays as if it is not linked to the style sheets or it displays the code starting 2 weird characters:
orCode:þÿ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
Code:<thorn>ÿ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
In some browsers (e.g. Safari) it's ok. What's going on!?
Thanks for any ideas!
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Sep 15, 2006, 12:12 #2SitePoint Wizard
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The only thing view source tells me is that your file is corrupt. Beyond that, we would have to see the local source file to be able to provide a helpful hand.
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Sep 15, 2006, 19:22 #3In memoriam
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What character encoding are you using, and what character encoding is being sent by the server?
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Sep 15, 2006, 19:55 #4SitePoint Enthusiast
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I have the same problem, my site Sports Chatter also has the same type of problem. My site loads up fine with the tables set how i want them in mozilla. When i use the browser IE, its all messed up. Anyway to fix this?
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Sep 15, 2006, 20:25 #5SitePoint Evangelist
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You don't have a hope of getting it fixed until you get your xhtml validated. You have more than 100 errors in your page! It's amazing any browser can display it at all.
Originally Posted by njrocket
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Sep 16, 2006, 06:31 #6Programming Team
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Bom
The characters
are the Byte Order Mark (BOM) they instruct the browser that the file is UTF-16BE (big endian)þÿ
From http://www.geocities.com/pmpg98_pt/C...rEncoding.html (citing w3c)
My guess is that not all browsers can deal with UTF-16BE Is there a reason you're using it? Do you have to? What are you creating the file with? There is most likely a way to determine what encoding the file is created in with whatever you are using.1. If there is a BOM, then this defines the file encoding.
2. If there isn't then look at the Encoding Declaration.
3. If none of the above meet then assume UTF-8.
@njrocket
You do not have the "same" problem. The page is using the DOCTYPE XHTML 1.0 Strict, but it is not (uses deprecated font tags for 1 thing). This could be part of the problem, which is mark-up and/or CSS related, and not an encoding issue. You should be able to fix it by doing as Ed Seedhouse suggested and getting it to first pass the validator.
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