HTML problem with Vista

[johngav]

Hello all

I'm developing simple HTML pages using nontepad .Nothing fancy , simple tags .

Whan i try to open the pages , they open perfectly on Windows xp , but on windows vista i get a compeletely blank page . The browser open but the page is blank . I get the "allow content " message i do allow it but nothing happens

I tried both explorer and firefox

Any help would be appreciated

[Force Flow]

i'm guessing there's a typo somewhere. Feel free to post the code if you want someone to look it over.



Other than that, notepad isn't the best tool to use, as if you make typos, there's nothing in place to check for that.

You can either validate the HTML here: http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload

Or get a tool that supports web development. There's a few listed here that are free:

http://sixrevisions.com/tools/30-use...web-designers/

Some prefer seamonkey or notepad++. You might be more comfortable with notepad++ if you do all your coding just in notepad.

There's also NVU, which is similar to dreamweaver, which is also free.

[johngav]

thanks for the tips force

but if there was a typo , wouldn't the page not show in windows xp as well ?

I will try notepad++

any other help always welcome

[Force Flow]

Browsers are fairly forgiving in that when an HTML page is invalid according to one of the standards, it enters "quirks mode". Quirks mode basically attempts to render the page however best it can. Sometimes it does okay depending on what the issue with the code is, and sometimes it doesn't. Because different browsers have different rendering engines, it will probably look different between different browsers.

(as an aside, there are also rendering bugs for standards and quirks modes that also cause things to display differently, but you probably won't see those until you really start diving into CSS style sheets)