Yoel...
Thanks for the response. I don't have a problem with the usual, rather the
unusual. I need to field the Greek "Alpha", but thanks
Curtis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: y.pedersen@g... [mailto:y.pedersen@g...]
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 5:54 PM
> To: HTML Code Clinic
> Subject: [html_code_clinic] Re: Symbols: Explorer vs. Netscape
>
>
> Hello Curtis,
>
> I don't know if it will solve your problem, but I have an advice for you.
>
> When you are making a Response.Write output, and you need to show a
> quotation mark as a part of the output, you can do it two ways:
>
> With double quotation marks:
>
> Response.Write "<a href=""http://p2p.wrox.com"">Wrox<" & Chr(47) & "a>"
>
> ...and by just assigning the appropriate ASCII code:
>
> Response.Write "<a href=" & Chr(34) & "http://p2p.wrox.com" & Chr(34)
> & ">Wrox<" & Chr(47) & "a>"
>
> Both code pieces would return the following html:
>
> <a href="http://p2p.wrox.com">Wrox</a>
>
> Additionally, I can tell you that Netscape is very sensitive about small
> details like missing quotation marks, missing close tags etc, while IE is
> very insensitive. Actually, a page developed using IE is quite different
> from one developed using Netscape, because the web designers and
> (especially!) programmers forget that Internet Explorer supports
> it's "own" html standards too. I can give you a small example from the
> start of my career:
>
> I wanted to make the width of two buttons exactly similar, even
> though the
> length of the caption was different for each. Then I simply just added
> spaces on each side of the shortest caption to make it fill out the
> remaining space. It worked fine with IE, but when I viewed the page in
> Netscape, none of the spaces had made it wider....
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Yoel Pedersen