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Sep 16, 2006, 18:27 #1
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Sometimes it's a cruel world...
Okay, so sitepoint made me aware of DOCTYPES and the DTD. I put in a fair amount of studying of XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets I work hard on one of my pages to bring it up to speed with XHTML so it can be validated. One of the things I learned studing XHTML is to always use lower case for your tags e.g. <p> my paragraph </p> NOT <P> my paragraph </P>. No problem, I usually always use only lower case for my tags anyway.
So I'm working hard in notepad cleaning up discrepancies the validator told me about. I up load the file I've "cleaned up" to my hosting site. I see a minor error and take a look at the source code. Every single one of my html tags are now mysteriously UPPER CASEOUCH!
Now, what's up with that!?
Sometimes it's a cruel world... but you gotta love it, maybe tomorrow will be a better day.
Dave
ps It does feel good knocking a little rust off and working on getting back into the swing of things. Oh yea!"Three components make an entrepreneur:
the person, the idea, and the resources to make it happen."
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Sep 16, 2006, 19:19 #2
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Hehe, so, was this a rhetorical post?
Maybe your FTP app is converting... prob not. Sounds weird though.
Hopefully you saved a backup copy.
Big ups on taking the plunge to xhtml land. Keep up the good work.
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Sep 16, 2006, 19:39 #3
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to uppercase
Let me guess, IE?
If you save a page using file -> save as with IE it will change the mark-ups tags to uppercase, and add tbody tags to tables, and remove "closing" tags on elements with no inner text ie. <br /> and <hr /> become <BR> and <HR>
If you save mark-up with IE, file -> edit (with notepad), Then from the new window file -> save as you should be OK.
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Sep 16, 2006, 19:49 #4
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@Mittineague: I love that quote!
"I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
~ Thomas Edison
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Sep 16, 2006, 19:56 #5
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What are you using to upload your files, and who is hosting your site for you?
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Sep 16, 2006, 20:09 #6
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I'm hosting this one on networksolutions and using their file manager to upload.
Mittineague gave me a possible clue as to what might have happened. I'm gonna check it out and I'll report back if I nail the cause down.
Dave"Three components make an entrepreneur:
the person, the idea, and the resources to make it happen."
Anita Roddick ~British entrepreneur
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Sep 16, 2006, 20:31 #7
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If that's the case, then (assuming you used Notepad to create your pages) you'll want to look into either www.pspad.com or www.gena01.com/win32pad (PSPad and Win32Pad, respectively--both are open source), and then head over to http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ and download FileZilla. It's a handy FTP application. I use it all the time
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Originally Posted by Mittineague
"I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
~ Thomas Edison
Stories like this bring to mind the old saying, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." Then when stuff like this happens you realize you are better off not counting them until they hatch, are raised, butchered, cooked and ate. Then, if they don't give you a belly ache, I reckon you can count them. And, just because you see the finish line in sight, it doesn't mean you'll successfully cross it.
Oh, well...
Have a great night everyone. It's been a long day and the wife just got home... gotta go.
Dave"Three components make an entrepreneur:
the person, the idea, and the resources to make it happen."
Anita Roddick ~British entrepreneur
dbr founder of: ProximityCast.com
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Sep 16, 2006, 20:42 #9
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Originally Posted by Dan Schulz
(currently use that for my FTP stuffs... just switched from the Mac world, so still looking to find the best apps.)
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Sep 16, 2006, 20:59 #10
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mhulse (or anyone else for that matter), feel free to PM me if you want a list of free, open source applications to use
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Sep 16, 2006, 21:22 #11
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Originally Posted by Dan Schulz
Thanks for offer.
Heck, maybe we should start a thread in the Computer Hardware and Software forum?
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Sep 16, 2006, 21:28 #12
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Originally Posted by mhulse
Dan, you mind if I semi-quoted you?
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Go ahead, in fact you have a PM with a suggestion
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Got my mess cleaned up. Now, I think I'm up for a little break.
I appreciate the help!
Thanks,
Dave"Three components make an entrepreneur:
the person, the idea, and the resources to make it happen."
Anita Roddick ~British entrepreneur
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Sep 18, 2006, 08:18 #15
Originally Posted by mhulse
http://www.smartftp.com/features.php
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dbr, what aprt of the Ozarks? Eureka Springs, Arkansas here!
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DBR - Why are you using view-source anyway? You've already got the source on your PC, after all, you just uploaded it
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Sep 22, 2006, 14:02 #18
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view-source
Originally Posted by gnarly
MatneyRide theDamRide
I'm not totally clear on your question. Right now notepad is my favored method to code html. I view the results in my browser and use view-source to edit and look at my code. Is there something I'm missing here?"Three components make an entrepreneur:
the person, the idea, and the resources to make it happen."
Anita Roddick ~British entrepreneur
dbr founder of: ProximityCast.com
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