Blogging through email and more about Dreamweaver

Now, this should be interesting. Supposedly I'm posting to my blog via email. Hmmm....

Another interesting Dreamweaver, well, not really even a Dreamweaver observation. It's more an XHTML/IE6 observation. Apparently IE6 has a "feature" (bug) that sends it into a Quirks mode if the XHTML doctype is incorrect. Why should this Quirks mode matter?

I'm going to tell you.

It's the IE 5.5 and above colored scrollbars. If the XHTML doctype is set, IE6 won't display colored scrollbars, unless the doctype is incorrect. If the doctype is incorrect, the XHTML won't validate, but you'll have your scrollbars.

However, I have found a way to trick IE and this is where Dreamweaver gets involved.

Dreamweaver has a "Clean up XHTML" command which will insert the XML prolog into the Web page. Somehow, with this XML prolog (which still validates as XHTML), IE6 will display the colored scrollbars. Yay.

Now let's hit the Send button and see if this thing actually posts...

[Note: it posted - it just pre-formatted the text like the email - that's why it's all snuggled up against the left]