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JeffH13

Jun 5 2010, 11:51 AM

I have created a flash video on my home page.

http://owblackhawkfootball.com/

When I open my home page with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox the video works fine. When I open my home page with Windows Internet Explorer the video doesn't work...

I looking for idea's why this is...

Thanks for your help...

teembo

Jun 5 2010, 12:33 PM

QUOTE(JeffH13 @ Jun 5 2010, 09:51 AM)

I don't know if this is it or not but:

You have a DOCTYPE declared twice. And the second one is inside the HEAD tag!!!

And isn't the DOCTYPE supposed to be the first code at the TOP of the page?

Darin McGrew

Jun 5 2010, 02:43 PM

While you're at it, fix the markup and CSS errors reported by the online tools:
http://htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?u...mp;warnings=yes
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validat...g=1&lang=en

JeffH13

Jun 7 2010, 08:00 AM

Wow...

I guess I didn't have that many errors in the code. I started off with a sample page and made alterations but really never look at the code through a Validator before...

I have only been looking at the code when I see an error on the web.

Darin could you help me understand some of these error message. I understand a little code but I do most of it in Dreamweaver.

Thanks I would appreciate it...

Thanks again

Darin McGrew

Jun 7 2010, 02:42 PM

Here you go...

CODE

Error: no document type declaration; will parse without validation

Please see
http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#doctype

Note that the missing doctype also throws browsers into quirks mode:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

CODE

Error: element script not allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within

I think this is related to the CSS error. Perhaps the validator thinks the style element is still open, and complains because you can't put a script element inside a style element.

CODE

Error: DOCTYPE declaration not allowed in instance

Ah, there's the doctype. It must be the first line of the document, with nothing before it.

CODE

Error: element html not allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within

There should be a similar error for the head element. You need to move the style and script elements that appear before the doctype into the head element that comes after the doctype.

CODE

Error: end tag for a omitted; end tags are required in XML for non-empty elements; empty elements require an end tag or the start tag must end with />

You're missing the </a> tag.

CODE

Error: end tag for element p which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

You've got a closing </p> tag but there is no opening <p> tag.

CODE

Error: unknown entity copy
Error: unknown entity nbsp

I think this is related to the doctype problem.

CODE

Warning: character & is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
Error: end tag for nobr omitted; end tags are required in XML for non-empty elements; empty elements require an end tag or the start tag must end with />

Embedding scripts into XHTML is troublesome. It's a lot cleaner to move the scripts into external files.

CODE

Error: unknown entity clickLABEL
Error: unknown entity flashLABEL
Error: unknown entity skin
Error: unknown entity text
Error: unknown entity untilColor
Error: unknown entity textColor
Error: unknown entity datesColor
Error: unknown entity year
Error: unknown entity month
Error: unknown entity day
Error: unknown entity hour
Error: unknown entity minute
Error: unknown entity second
Error: unknown entity x
Error: unknown entity y
Warning: reference not terminated by refc delimiter

See http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html.en#amp

CODE

Error: end tag for br omitted; end tags are required in XML for non-empty elements; empty elements require an end tag or the start tag must end with />

If you're going to use XHTML, then you need to use <br /> rather than <br>, and <img ... /> rather than <img ...>.

CODE

Error: end tag for td omitted; end tags are required in XML for non-empty elements; empty elements require an end tag or the start tag must end with />
Error: end tag for element span which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

More missing closing tags.

JeffH13

Jun 7 2010, 03:25 PM

Thank you so much I will try to go through it...

Thanks again...

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