From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 03:20:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54D81065670 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 03:20:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B068FC13 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 03:20:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4U3K5UY076460; Thu, 29 May 2008 20:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 20:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:20:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bob Johnson Message-ID: <20080530032001.GG62524@thought.org> References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> <54db43990805291514l52140608le23b39a760a64a0c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54db43990805291514l52140608le23b39a760a64a0c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 03:20:06 -0000 On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 5/29/08, 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 > [...] > > I'd be much obliged for any help here. > > > > > > Konqueror says that the comment that reads > > > > isn't closed until the end of the next comment way down the page, so > it is ignoring all the code in between. I think that's your problem > (there is a typo in the close of the comment). In other words, > Konqueror seems to be displaying the page correctly. The other > browsers are probably (incorrectly) treating end-of-line as > end-of-comment. > > When you "View Document Source" in Konqueror, it highlights the markup > to make it easier to spot such problems, and comments stand out pretty > distinctly. In fact, it appears there are a few other places with that > same typo (closing a comment with "--!>"). > yes! it looks like you are right on the money! next time you are in seattle, i'll buy you a beer. (also, this may explain why sometimes my comments bombbed during testing. i thought " was *legal*. *mumble::censored*) thank you * 1000, gary > - Bob -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org