[Xitami] Safari and DOCTYPE

[Gordon Wong]

15 years ago, CSS was only a draft proposal.  10 years ago it was not 
commonly used.  Xitami version 2.4 is probably 15 years old which could 
explain why the MIME type for CSS was not listed in the config.


At 07:04 PM 2010-11-04 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks Gordon.  It seems to be working.  I think the [Mime] line must have 
>been working before but I was looking at cached copies of my pages.  Good find.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org 
>[mailto:xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Gordon Wong
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:41 AM
>To: Xitami Users General Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Xitami] Safari and DOCTYPE
>
>
>I am using Xitami 2.4d10 under Windows 2000 Pro and had been fighting for 
>months with how Chrome (only Chrome) completely ignored external css files.
>
>But all was fine after I told Xitami yesterday that .css files were of 
>type text/css in defaults.cfg:
>[Mime]
>      css=text/css
>
>Now it does not matter what <!DOCTYPE> I use:
>- HTML 4.01 strict
>- HTML 4.01 transitional
>- XHTML 1.0 Transitional
>- even with a missing <!DOCTYPE> line the external CSS works !
>
>
>My current working test site setup:
>
>HTML 4.01 strict in pages:
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
>"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>
>In the <head> I specified charset:
><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1">
>
>In the external CSS the matching charset specification was the first line:
>@charset "iso-8859-1";
>
>External stylesheet reference was:
><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/style.css">
>
>How is your page wacky?  Can you confirm that 2.4d6 understands the new 
>lines in defaults.cfg ?
>
>I will send you the link to the working page.
>
>
>
>At 09:54 AM 2010-11-02 -0500, you wrote:
>>Gordon,
>>
>>This did NOT work for me.  I added the line in the defaults.cfg with a
>>"normal" DOCTYPE and page was wacky.  Tried restarting Xitami.  No change.
>>Tried adding line to MIME section of xitami.cfg with and without a restart -
>>no difference.  For me the only thing that works is using a DOCTYPE of
>><!DOCTYPE>
>>
>>Would you mind giving me the page address that now works for you.  I'd like
>>to see what you have in your CSS. Thanks.
>>
>>Phil
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org
>>[mailto:xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Gordon Wong
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:23 PM
>>To: Xitami Users General Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [Xitami] Safari and DOCTYPE
>>
>>
>>
>>Whoops - found the solution.  Now Chrome works with external stylesheets.
>>
>>Edit defaults.cfg and add the two lines:
>>
>>[Mime]
>>      css=text/css
>>
>>I didn't even have to restart Xitami.
>>
>>- Gordon
>>
>>
>>I said:
>>I have been having unreliable results with external stylesheets with Xitami
>>2.4d10 under Windows with Chrome browser.
>>The same test site that fails with Chrome browser when served by Xitami
>>works fine with Apache.
>>I tried everything to do with DTD and @charset etc.
>>Unless someone can identify why Xitami does this it's time to move on ...
>>
>>
>>
>>At 06:34 PM 2010-09-20 -0400, you wrote:
>> >To Pieter (or anyone who might know)
>> >
>> >In searching for a solution to an issue I was having, I found a 1 Dec 2009
>> >post on Wikidot which indicated that if a DOCTYPE line was present that
>> >Xitami would not respect the formatting in the CSS file.  I am having the
>> >same issue with both Safari and Chrome.  Pieter had suggested that this was
>> >a "pure HTML" issue and encouraged the poster to ask the question in this
>> >forum but I don't see that he ever did.
>> >
>> >In anyone's experience, is there a DOCTYPE that will work with Xitami
>> >(V2.4d6) on Safari and Chrome?  Or is there otherwise a solution?
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >
>> >Phil
>>
>>
>>
>>
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