iphone reads html differently than other browsers - iPhone 3G

ron ll · 07-23-2007, 11:29 PM

My web page does not display properly on the iphone. This is NOT a Flash issue, just simple html that has been working properly for years on other browsers. Some of my sub-pages work, some do not. In comparing the html for a working and non-working page, the only difference I can spot is different case for elements. Is there any reason that html case-sensitivity might be different for the iphone?

xoulo · 07-23-2007, 11:32 PM

its the flash and java support that doesnt allow us to watch videos ... YET
videos run by quicktime is okay for us to watch through safari if thats what your talking about

ron ll · 07-23-2007, 11:35 PM

Let me repeat, this is NOT a Flash issue.

linkerjpatrick · 07-24-2007, 12:45 AM

Maybe Safari on the iPhone prefers the stricter xhtml rules which are case sensitive in that the html tags have to be in lower case. Just because they work in the other browsers doesn't mean it's right.

According to Apple's iPhone dev web site it supports the following;

HTML 4.01
XHTML 1.0
CSS 2.1 and partial CSS3
ECMAScript 3 (JavaScript)
W3C DOM Level 2
AJAX technologies, including XMLHTTPRequest

Are you at least declaring the html version in your headers? That can make a difference with the more picky browsers. (almost everything except IE for the most part). This is my guess. I'll check into it more. In the past few years I have all but transitioned to xhtml (at least in transitional mode) so I haven't noticed any problems so far with the sites I develop.

SF_VR6 · 07-24-2007, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ron ll

Let me repeat, this is NOT a Flash issue.

Why don't you send us a link?

ron ll · 07-24-2007, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by SF_VR6

Why don't you send us a link?

Two reasons: 1. I didn't want to appear to market in a forum, and 2. it is really sloppy html code. But I'm thinking it is the case-sensitivity issue which I can test when I get back to my office. But the site is www.ronlloyd.com. The home page does not show the first image map. In my defense, this html was written by a former employee about six years ago. In the former employee's defense, he still knew more about html than I do

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linkerjpatrick · 07-24-2007, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ron ll

Two reasons: 1. I didn't want to appear to market in a forum, and 2. it is really sloppy html code. But I'm thinking it is the case-sensitivity issue which I can test when I get back to my office. But the site is www.ronlloyd.com. The home page does not show the first image map. In my defense, this html was written by a former employee about six years ago. In the former employee's defense, he still knew more about html than I do

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Ok, by looking at the source code I can see one glaring problem...

Microsoft Frontpage!

Surprisingly however the code is pretty clean and fomatted but it's was done with an older version of Frontpage before MS starting including all kind of "junk code". I'm guess and I stress "guessing" since it some old code it might have something to do with the image map code.

Which "sub-page" in particular is giving you problems.

ron ll · 07-24-2007, 05:34 PM

I changed some of the case, but it still doesn't work. www.ronlloyd.com/aboutrla.htm works fine and it has a similar image map with links. I don't see the difference between that page and the home page, www.ronlloyd.com/index.htm.

evilpersona · 07-24-2007, 07:07 PM

your doctype is messed up. that could be the reason its not showing up.

ron ll · 07-24-2007, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by evilpersona

your doctype is messed up. that could be the reason its not showing up.

Could you expand on that a bit please? I am not fluent in html, I'm just hoping to correct this old code that was written by someone else. Thanks.