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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-5905:
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Kristian said:
> Another remark is that when I copied one of the pages that IE wasn't
> able to display online to my local drive, IE was able to display it.
> It used IE8 Quirks mode, but I don't know what it's trying to do for
> the online version since everything just "hangs"/stops before I can
> tell what's going on.
I'm not sure exactly what quirks mode does, but I searched for the
problems we're seeing, and found that Internet Explorer takes comments
that come before the DOCTYPE declaration as a signal to enable quirks
mode. See for example this thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941100/can-html-comments-appear-before-the-doctype-declaration
So in any case it sounds safest to move the license comment away from
the declaration to prevent any interaction with that mechanism in IE.
> Derby html documentation doesn't render properly and prints garbage on Internet Explorer
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>
> Key: DERBY-5905
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5905
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Documentation
> Affects Versions: 10.8.2.2, 10.9.1.0, 10.10.0.0
> Reporter: Kathey Marsden
> Attachments: d5905-1a-move-comments.diff, screenshot-1.jpg
>
>
> There have been reports that DERBY html documentation does not render on Internet Explorer
8 and 9.
> Kristian reports on IE8
> Just tried with IE8, and with the Getting Started manual I get this when I view the source:
> """
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
> <BODY></BODY></HTML>
> <snipped garbage as to not put it in jira>
> Not sure how that last line will turn out in your email clients, but it is indeed garbage
and you can see that the body-tag is empty. Nothing is rendered in the browser. We are using
frames though - that's not exactly state-of-the-art... We are also using the wrong DOCTYPE.
I'm suspecting that the HTML is invalid too, but haven't checked.
> On IE9 I had heard that the reference HTML manual prints garbage.
> http://db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html#latest
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