HTML Doc Type question.

[Ped]

Hi Guys,
Here is a wee Doc Type quirk that seems to crop up when displaying QuickTime panorama's and I have never to been able to find out why it happens. The problem is; when the full Doc Type is included on a page with a full screen QuickTime mov file, the file is displayed more like a banner across the top of the page, but leaving out the end part of the doc type allows the display to cover the full screen?

Any one know why this happens? or how to fix it?

Should add here that the problem shows with FireFox and Opera, but I.E. and Safari seem to display fine with either partial or full doc types.?

Not a major problem, but I am just curious as to why this should be.

Ped

[esnail]

which doctype are you using? html? xhtml? strict? transitional?

[Ped]

HTML 4.01 Transitional

I have uploaded a page to show the effect, first as normal with a short doc type and the second to show what happens with the full doc type.

1: http://panocorner.com/qtvr/nl_school.html
2: http://panocorner.com/qtvr/nl_school_test.html

Ped

[Rock]

Ped, from what I can see [or saw], this is a pure browser level issue. QuickTime & Safari are Apple products. IE is a standard & worldwide used browser & hence many applications are made to be compatible with it. I guess this be the case about your app working on Safari & IE I am puzzled over this not working with Mozilla Firefox. One can't comment on Mozilla as it has outgrown & one on the most popular browsers these days. I myself use Firefox & IE

[Ped]

Thanks for having a look anyway I use Firefox myself and the significance of safari escaped me. I think I will ask on the mozilla forums, maybe someone can come up with an addon, fix or maybe a reason would do. Meanwhile, I will just continue omiting a part of the doc type

Ped

[esnail]

You could try using a strict doctype rather than transitional.

[Ped]

Well, I got a reply on the Mozilla forums which sort of makes sense to me. Not a fix but a reason why it happens

Percentage intrinsic heights are evaluated with respect to the containing block's height, if that height is specified explicitly, or if the replaced element is absolutely positioned. If neither of these conditions is met, then percentage values on such replaced elements can't be resolved and such elements are assumed to have no intrinsic height.

From this I guess that a fix should be possible using CSS. I will have a poke around with that see if I can get it right.

[jc8654]

Yep, sounds as if CSS should be able to do it.