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Mon 01 May 2006

Well, that was infuriating

My latest webapp was showing blank pages on Opera, both desktop and mobile. I narrowed it down to a testcase. This fails:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
      <script type="text/javascript" 
              src="/javascript/prototype.js"/>
    <title>
      Test
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="page">
    <h1>TEST</h1>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

… while this succeeds:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
      <script type="text/javascript" 
              src="/javascript/prototype.js"></script>
    <title>
      Test
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="page">
    <h1>TEST</h1>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Now that is annoying. I wasted a fair few hours on that.

Posted at 2006-05-01 14:20:08 by Richard • Link to Well, that was inf…
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Blogging from a phone again

Elaina and I headed down to the Cingular store today to pick up a couple of new phones. I ended up with a Nokia 9300 — it has its flaws, but I am using it to post this, so it's got something going for it! Quite a cute little phone, really.

I'll blog more when I've played some more. In principle I have VPN, BlackBerry mail, Opera, and PuTTY to hand!

Elaina, by the way, got a fuscia-coloured RAZR. It's growing on me….

Posted at 2006-05-01 00:42:13 by Richard • Link to Blogging from a ph…
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