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floabhor
01-16-2003, 06:33 AM
Some users of my site at GreenHouse Gas online (http://www.ghgonline.org) seems to be having problems with some of the pages.

Specifically, a user trying to display content for Methane - Seas (http://www.ghgonline.org/methaneseas.htm) on Mac IE4 is just getting a screenful of ascii characters.

They report the same problem for /humaninfluence.htm, /kyoto.htm and /introduction.htm. I'm at a loss as to why these pages aren't displaying while others, /index.htm for instance, are OK. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

Floabhor
Charles
01-16-2003, 08:55 AM
Originally posted by floabhor
Can anyone help? Not without a URL for one of the troublesome pages.
meow
01-16-2003, 09:23 AM
Try the links in his post. :D
floabhor
01-16-2003, 09:26 AM
The 'methane seas' link in my question should take you to one of these 'problem' pages. URL is http://www.ghgonline.org/methaneseas.htm if that doesn't work.

Flo
Charles
01-16-2003, 09:35 AM
I'm afraid to say that the mark up on that page is a mess. Your problem cold be caused by any number of problems. Start with a valid DOCTYPE:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Declare your encoding:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

And, run that puppy through the validator at http://validator.w3.org/.
Charles
01-16-2003, 09:43 AM
Originally posted by meow
Try the links in his post. :D Sorry, for some reason links on this board don't seem any different from text for me. I wasn't aware that there was a link there.