From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 14:52:33 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 1843E106564A for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 14:52:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BE48FC1B for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 14:52:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so4700056rvf.43 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:52:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=EOyt+ie4gPxq4gtASHA5vuD8aWZBvue2rXwJXlNSusQ=; b=DyEwaq73HZpm9Tmh7sRu7YT4xyJx2Lp1YbuRNX5Wfo5p6Xglti1GXkt3s+dNo2lZxq2DyJoPpHLCcNOlkPKwnSdc/8ZHiS5/Rks8bsT9Id2XuXDs5dvUtNjBArXKPLwCi5FcCbdZb0ko3XUEkNvxvKaEPuBYc2t9W3s7Xws7TxY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=vpNG+vGNV23OMGUQgcmTyhY7FXff+EpYB7r7Rjshr1f8GI6fdG8l+a/xgF6OLE36cxwAotFutVrA405PbayoxCeMIo37f2/WhxLMHVPCdWXQ/5B1uhUXuXTY8ngVLZnW7/u7Ov+RYVW+o+fJY5NIW4yqo67stMYRSL2YCw/xamg= Received: by 10.140.164.6 with SMTP id m6mr3077730rve.208.1212159151816; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.248.15 with HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990805300752n413dd879j69c320c8012b8c5e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:52:31 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" To: "Gary Kline" In-Reply-To: <20080530032001.GG62524@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> <54db43990805291514l52140608le23b39a760a64a0c@mail.gmail.com> <20080530032001.GG62524@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 14:52:33 -0000 On 5/29/08, Gary Kline wrote: > 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 >> >> >> [...] > > (also, this may explain why sometimes my comments bombbed during > testing. i thought " was *legal*. *mumble::censored*) > Yeah, that's a common error. It would make sense, and I have no clue why comment tags aren't symmetric in HTML. But the bizzare thing is that early in the days of web browsers, rather than just accept that as legal so broken code would render correctly, the browser authors decided to fix the problem by accepting end-of-line as a comment terminator, which very distinctly violates the standard. So there are a lot of web pages out there that won't render correctly on standards-compliant browsers. I suspect that using an editor that _correctly_ highlights HTML code would solve most of your problems. To me, a content management system only makes sense for a site that is either large, or has multiple authors. If you update your site frequently, a WYSIWYG HTML editor would be helpful and should have a very small learning curve. I think others have already suggested a few. I took a brief look at your site, and it appears that right now you are pretty much using it as a blog. If the format works for you, a site like http://www.tumblr.com/help might be easier than maintaining your own. The nice thing about tumblr is that you don't have to install anything on your own system to use it. - Bob