no, meta-tags can't change much since the content-type is already sent with the http-header (which, in normal case, you create all by yourself when writing perl-cgis). And a meta-tag in that form doesn't exist anyway. The correct version is (e.g.):
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
(xhtml compatible..)

If using tables you should be extremly carefull. NS has some really weird behavior, e.g. when you give a columns width in percent you can't center it anymore, etc.. (there some ways to work around, but i had that problem several times..) Try using CGI.pm or close ALL tags.. It doens't matter if you have too many closing tags, but it matters if you don't have enough..

Regards, octopus

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