0001409: Blank new lines before DOCTYPE in product details causes problems for IE

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001409	OXID eShop (all versions)	3.1. Design, GUI, UX	public	2009-10-21 10:21	2009-10-23 12:48

Reporter	alfonsas_cirtautas	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	4.1.6 revision 22740
Fixed in Version	4.2.0 revision 23610

Summary	0001409: Blank new lines before DOCTYPE in product details causes problems for IE
Description	IE can't determind doctype corecltly if it is not in the first line, then it just switches to quirks mode
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Theme
Browser	Internet Explorer 6.x or older
PHP Version	5.2.6
Database Version	5.0.33

alfonsas_cirtautas 2009-10-21 11:47 reporter ~0001943	The problem can be seen not only in details page. The problem was Smarty leaving newline and whitespace characters if _header.tpl was included non in first line (in some cases it is not possible to do, if some variable assigns are needed to pass to header include) The fix is simple, ltrim output.