[ale] bad html

[Mike Millson]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:16, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2003 04:58 pm, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > I am trying to reach the searchable index of the
> > Georgia State Code.
> >
> > The web page is:
> > <http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/gl_codes_detail.pl?code=1-1-1>
> >
> > But I can't see the entire page. So I fired off a note to
> >
> > the webmaster and got this reply:
> > > The page works fine with Netscape 4.76 and Internet Explorer 5.0 or
> > > better. Netscape 6.x and 7.x both are unable to correctly load the
> > > pages.
> >
> > I looked at the source html for the page and realized I do not know
> > enough to spot the problem, although I have a suspicion or two.
> > Both browsers on my box (Mozilla and Konky) use the Netscape engine.
> > Suggestions on how to reach this page would be appreciated.
> > Would Opera be able to read this page?
> 
> More data points: I use Konqueror with the KDE engine (KHTML) engine and 
> that doesn't work either.  I get a blank page with nothing but the header.  
> It is very wide (about 5 screens wide).  wget got the same thing.
> 
> Michael

This page has a ton of problems, but I think the one that is keeping it
from rendering is there is no closing </select> tag.

Mike

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