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  1. Derby
  2. DERBY-5904

Derby html documentation doesn't render properly and prints garbage on Internet Explorer

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 10.8.2.2, 10.9.1.0, 10.10.1.1
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    • Documentation
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    • High Value Fix

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      There have been reports that DERBY html documentation does not render on Internet Explorer 8 and 9.

      Kristian reports on IE8
      Just tried with IE8, and with the Getting Started manual I get this when I view the source:
      """
      <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
      <HTML><HEAD>
      <META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
      <BODY></BODY></HTML>
      <snipped garbage as to not put it in jira>

      Not sure how that last line will turn out in your email clients, but it is indeed garbage and you can see that the body-tag is empty. Nothing is rendered in the browser. We are using frames though - that's not exactly state-of-the-art... We are also using the wrong DOCTYPE. I'm suspecting that the HTML is invalid too, but haven't checked.

      On IE9 I had heard that the reference HTML manual prints garbage.
      http://db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html#latest

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              kmarsden Katherine Marsden
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