ASCII mystery

liunx

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Some users of my site at GreenHouse Gas online (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ghgonline.org">http://www.ghgonline.org</a><!-- m -->) seems to be having problems with some of the pages. <br />
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Specifically, a user trying to display content for Methane - Seas (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ghgonline.org/methaneseas.htm">http://www.ghgonline.org/methaneseas.htm</a><!-- m -->) on Mac IE4 is just getting a screenful of ascii characters. <br />
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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?<br />
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Thanks in advance.<br />
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Floabhor<!--content-->Originally posted by floabhor <br />
Can anyone help? Not without a URL for one of the troublesome pages.<!--content-->Try the links in his post. :D<!--content-->The 'methane seas' link in my question should take you to one of these 'problem' pages. URL is <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ghgonline.org/methaneseas.htm">http://www.ghgonline.org/methaneseas.htm</a><!-- m --> if that doesn't work.<br />
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Flo<!--content-->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:<br />
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><br />
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Declare your encoding:<br />
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><br />
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And, run that puppy through the validator at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://validator.w3.org/">http://validator.w3.org/</a><!-- m -->. posted by meow <br />
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.<!--content-->
 
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