Netscape Issue...

Anon

Hello Everyone,

I am having a a little issue here with netscape 4.75 I have written a little guest book for a site using PHP 4 and MySQL. Everything works fine in IE, but when you pull the listings up in netscape, there is no content? But when I pull up the source for the page in netscape, it's all there??? Any help would be appreciated..

Tek

Anon

Netscape will not display pages with improperly formatted HTML tables.

Anon

Empty pages in Netscape are normally due to HTML syntax errors.

But it's impossible to help when we can't see the web-page on which the error is.

Generally:
IE is a good end-user browser, but it's miserable for web-developers because it hides your HTML errors.

Anon

the link to the page is
http://www.grsbm.com/list.php

Anon

You should use Netscape to build your site, It helps you being more carefull with your scriptings.

Pepe

Anon

OK, it's a plain old HTML syntax error problem and is NOT a "Netscape issue"; it's an IE-issue, because IE hides the problem for you.

It's very hard to debug your HTML because most of the code is place in one long line.

But there is certainly a problem with tag-mismatch and/or overlapping tags. Try running your URL through http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/weblint
That will give you hints about where the errors are.

Anon

Here is a snippet of the code...

$i = 0;

print "<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"95%\">";
while ($i < $number){
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$name = stripslashes($row["name"]);
$email = $row["email"];
$mailing = $row["mailing"];
$url = $row["url"];
$comment = stripslashes(nl2br($row["comment"]));

$email = str_replace("@","%40",$email);

if( $email == "" ) {
print "<tr>";
print "<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"$td_bgcolor\">Name : $name</td>";
print "</tr>";
}
else {
print "<tr>";
print "<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"$td_bgcolor\"><a href=\"mailto:$email\" class=\"nav\">$name</a></td>";
print "</tr>";
}
if ($mailing == "") {
print "<tr>";
print "<td valign=\"top\">Mailing Address: No Address Given</td>";
print "</tr>";
} else {
print "<tr>";
print "<td valign=\"top\">Mailing Address:     $mailing</td>";
print "</tr>";
}
if( $url != "http://" && $url != "" ) {

if( $title == "" ) $title = $url;
print "<tr>";
print "<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Check out their home page     <a href=\"$url\">$title</a></td>";
print "</tr>";
}
print "<tr>";
print "<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">Comments:     $comment </td>";
print "</tr>";
$i++;
}
print "</table>";

print " ";
include ("pages.inc.php");
?>

Anon

Heya.. i was having the exact same problem recently. IE is very forgiving about tags (and lack of tags) however netscape is a PAIN :p. Everything worked perfectly in ie and even netscape 6, but netscape 4.x just wouldn't accept it. I posted here and found out that my problem was html coding, and I am almost sure that will be the case with yours.. try running it through a program like dreamweaver or the netscape html builder. they highlight errors in html. if that doesn't do it, post a copy of the resulted source code that you see in netscape so other can take a look at it