Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:33:38 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Message-ID: <200805291333.38269.kline@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080529154629.GA38618@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> <20080529154629.GA38618@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Thu May 29 2008 08:46:29 David Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:57:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page
> > was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black
> > on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and checked with
> > firefox; things looked fine. I've done all markup by hand since
> > '94, very carefully, with only browsers in the ports tree--
> > mozilla, firefox, a couple others.
>
> Others have suggested online validators. /usr/ports/www/tidy is another
> that can check your code, even attempt repairs. Can also be used to
> standardize the coding format much like GNU indent for C code. Comes
> built-in to BBEdit on Mac where I do most of my HTML authoring.
>
> Eyeballing your code the first thing that stood out was:
>
> BACKGROUND="/usr/local/www/data/Graphics/paper0.jpg"
>
> Don't think that will work for anyone other than yourself, and only when
> you are on the server itself. Unless one has a file with that exact same
> name and path.
Good one, thankee. Using the bg graphic works on my jottings pages because I
gave a relative "./Graphics/foo.jpg" pointer. Just checking now with Opera,
I still see the "www" page askew. Blue-bar with most strings embedded within
it. firefox [ and mozilla ] get it the way I want, opera and konq, nope.
tidy? Sorry, must snce i've been wworking on other things, i've lost touch.
--
Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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