149940 - utoronto.ca - malformed page due to standards mode

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Andy]

Homepage rendered in IE 5.x correctly where Mozilla could not.

Comment 1

[Dylan Foley]

page renders much better in quirks mode if you remove the DOCTYPE at the begining.

there are several major errors in the page source. this is not a browser/table
problem.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page triggers standards mode by advertising adherence to a current strict
doctype.  Then it fails to adhere to the doctype and worse yet has unterminated
comments like "<!-- comment -- more stuff -->"

As a result, much of the page is commented out and it is shown wrong.

This is evangelism.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** Bug 168817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Frankie]

6 months later, the page is still malformed. It does, however, offer the
following helpful message:

"Note: this site does not work with Netscape 7.01"

This is the first time I've seen DOCTYPE HTML 4.01 Frameset on a non-frames
page. As others have said, the most egregious errors could be corrected by
removing the doctype and eliminating the invalid runs of dashes within comments.

Contact addresses are [e-mail] and
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Comment 5

[Frankie]

I contacted Nicholas Martin Sperry informally and he removed the faulty doctype.

The page looks quite nice now.

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.