[PLUG] Strangeness under Internet Explorer...

[Michael C. Robinson]

I developed a simple text web page, mostly <p> 
sections with paragraphs.  In other words, nothing 
that won't work in lynx except for back.gif at the 
end.  Wanting to improve the spacing, I looked up 
the character code for a space and discovered I 
needed to do &#20, decimal representation 
I think.

It works in mozilla, for some reason though IE prints 
squares instead of spaces.  How does one know what 
works everywhere or should I just redirect to a page 
that says go get mozilla?

I wish I had even my basic html book at hand.

I have run into one problem with mozilla.  On the 
pictures page at http://www.robinson-west.com 
the thumbnails don't render in a perfect rectangle, 
two rows of four.  If anyone wants to look at the 
source to see if they can catch the mistake, it's 
a very simple page.

With server side includes if the condition is false 
is the rest of the page not rendered?  This is what 
happened when I tried doing an SSI clock statement 
for local clients only as an experiment and accessed 
my page via lynx remotely.  For SSI if statements can 
an else clause be added that will cause processing to 
continue?

Oh, my custom browser does have SSI.  No
mod_include.so though because it's staticly 
compiled.

     --  Michael