61935 - ap.org - colors missing # prefix, and Transitional DTD used when it shouldn't be

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Using N6 RTM on WinNT 4.0, visit site.

Problem: navigational text bar displays black-text-on-black background

Analysis:
0) colors in page are missing required leading # character (invalid HTML)
1) it uses 4.01 Transitional DTD with explicit URI --> go into standard layout
mode, so presentational hints are ignored, so colors without leading # are
ignored and we fall back to default color, which is black

Solution:
1)prefix colors with #
2) remove doctype declaration or change to 4.0 Transitional (instead of 4.01)

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning evangelism bugs to [e-mail].

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

p3 is fine, pretty important site

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I have a report from a newspaper that http://www.ap.org/apserver photo servers
do not detect Mozilla/Netscape 6 and serve up Layers to Mozilla/Netscape 6. Does
anyone have further information on this?

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 5

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass reassign of all tech-evangelism us general bugs assigned to bc to 
doron except bc's P1 bugs. You may search for this mass reassign (it is 
305 bugs) by searching for the keyword 'greeneggsandham'

Comment 6

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

they've fixed it the worse way - removed the DOCTYPE, but still: it's fixed.

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

no *.ap.org site loading for me