I will stick with the standard that EW produces. I do not plan to change my site again unless I go to xhtml Strict. This cemetery survey was put up a few seconds ago using xhtml and EW. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nma/catron/aragoncemetery.html I will be adding photo links to each name in a day or two. If anyone has a better idea how to put a big and wide file like this online, please give us a blast. I personally would not add all of the notes to this text layout, but I've learned to keep volunteers happy which makes my web site grow. Also, this page has no code errors according to EW. It is a new page, not a convert page from FrontPage, so it was easy to do right the first time. It took about three minutes once I had the survey in text form in Excel. Charles Jim Rickenbacker(3) wrote: > utf-8 is a variable length character set, i.e. some special characters take > more than one byte. If you are doing database driven web pages this can > cause string processing problems for languages like PHP and Perl. UTF-8 > shouldn't be a problem for static web pages but for now I'm sticking with > iso-8859-1 until utf-8 gains maturity and more universal support. > > For much the same maturity reason, I'm avoiding XHTML 1.0. HTML 4.01 strict > works well, displays equivalently in IE and Firefox and should convert to > XHTML 2+ fairly easily. > > Jim Rickenbacker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George Waller" <George@waller.org> > To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:59 AM > Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] utf-8 > > > >> I too use utf-8 based on reading that it was an >> international standard. Does anyone else have >> observations on its use? >> George >> >> On 4 Jan 2010 at 23:24, Tina Clarke wrote: >> >> >>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> >>> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.126/2601 - Release Date: 01/04/10 23:35:00 > >

I have a series of marriage index pages. The tables were also converted from Excel, but I left in lines to help the eye follow the record. I also allowed word wrap and a 100% table to eliminate the scroll bar. See http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~palackaw/marriages/marriage438.html as an example. Susan On 1/5/2010 2:46 PM, Charles Barnum wrote: > I will stick with the standard that EW produces. I do not plan to change > my site again unless I go to xhtml Strict. > > This cemetery survey was put up a few seconds ago using xhtml and EW. > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nma/catron/aragoncemetery.html > > I will be adding photo links to each name in a day or two. > If anyone has a better idea how to put a big and wide file like this > online, please give us a blast.

>I will stick with the standard that EW produces. I do not plan to change > my site again unless I go to xhtml Strict. EW only produces which ever charset depending on the settings you have when you make a new page what is the charset? ... thats what ew is producing... if its the old 1252 ... you should not be using that this is the one to be using iso-8859-1 if ew is producing 1252 .. then you must have done that setting cos its not the default the default is utf. us/western windows is what you have it set to under site settings - language tab ... it needs to be us/western iso for charset=iso-8859-1" plus it does not validate because you have not followed the instructions for the rootsweb banner .. the pudding proof is the live version. see - http://www.genealogy-computer-tips.com/xhtml-doctype/ Tina Expression Web Xmas/NY Giveaway 23rd Dec - 15th Jan http://www.frontpage-to-expression.com/expression-web-giveaway.html

Hello Tina, Here are a few points to consider. 1--Where in the instructions for EW does it say to set the page or site to us/western iso, charset=iso-1 ? If the 1252 is "old fashioned" why does EW use it? 2--I did not set the charset to anything because I do not even know where that is. 3--I do not use RW Free Pages for that web site. Where the banner goes and what it does is up to RW. 4--As far as validating, it validates fine using the code checker in EW. If some other validator does not validate it, I do not care. 5--I did NOT follow the instructions for the Rootsweb banner because I have never read them and never been told by RW to read them, and I do not know where they are. I upload my pages, and RW is free to place banners on them as they feel necessary. 6--The web site you refer to as the authority is another one of Pat Geary's sites. ( http://www.genealogy-computer-tips.com/xhtml-doctype/ ) Could you provide a MS page in the future instead of her sites? Charles Tina Clarke wrote: >> I will stick with the standard that EW produces. I do not plan to change >> my site again unless I go to xhtml Strict. >> > > EW only produces which ever charset depending on the settings you have > > when you make a new page what is the charset? ... thats what ew is > producing... > > if its the old 1252 ... you should not be using that > > this is the one to be using > > iso-8859-1 > > if ew is producing 1252 .. then you must have done that setting cos its not > the default the default is utf. > > us/western windows is what you have it set to under site settings - language > tab ... it needs to be us/western iso for charset=iso-8859-1" > > > plus it does not validate because you have not followed the instructions for > the rootsweb banner .. the pudding proof is the live version. > see - http://www.genealogy-computer-tips.com/xhtml-doctype/ > > Tina > Expression Web Xmas/NY Giveaway 23rd Dec - 15th Jan > http://www.frontpage-to-expression.com/expression-web-giveaway.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.126/2601 - Release Date: 01/04/10 23:35:00 > >

At 06:24 PM 1/5/2010, you wrote: >The web site you refer to as the authority is another one of Pat >Geary's sites. ( http://www.genealogy-computer-tips.com/xhtml-doctype/ >) Could you provide a MS page in the future instead of her sites? ================= Since Microsoft has absolutely NOTHING to do with RootsWeb it is not likely anyone will point you to a page done by Microsoft to tell you how to get the banner to validate. Perhaps this will mean more to you http://searches2.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/HTMLHELP/2008-10/1225477892 Pat