Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:04:51 -0700 From: Kent <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Message-ID: <200805301404.51880.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20080530190416.GA7251@thought.org> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEKNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <483F9115.4010903@pixelhammer.com> <20080530190416.GA7251@thought.org>
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On Friday 30 May 2008 12:04:16 pm Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:31:01AM -0400, DAve wrote: > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- > > >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gary Kline > > > > I nearly spit coffee on my keyboard! I agree with you 100%. When we all > > did HTML with BBedit and Textpad, people like Black, Tog, and Nielsen > > kept everyone designing websites to best serve the content. Now it is > > all about the sizzle, but there is rarely a steak. > > > > DAve > > You got it, man. At least 80% of the site I happen on--at least > that are selling something--have so much kerrapp going on I'd go > blind if I stayed there for very long. (I so *enjoy* being able > to block ads or stop-movie (gnash), and then find the router or > DVD or whatever. And get out!) I hate the over use of flash and etc. I sometimes think that is similar to putting a pdf file on a website instead of using txt. It bypasses some of the quirks and you see what they want you to see. > > This is not the kind of page i'M aiming for. --But then, I > really don't know what/how I want to revise my www homepage. I use Adobe's GoLive but they killed it for Dreamweaver. If it had been a modest upgrade price, I would have upgraded but I didn't. > > The reason for the strange display was a bad comment. So at > least I've learned something! Now www looks fine from ffox, > opera, and Konq. I've forbidden my tweenager from using IE so > have to wait for wife. Or see if friends reply who use IE. > I have IE 7, Firefox, Seamonkey, and Safari on my main XP machine. I can't see any obvious difference. I also can't see any obvious difference between Firefox and Konqueror on FreeBSD and the XP browsers. FWIW, IE seems to complain on many of the sites I visit. It has a little comment on the status bar to the effect of completed but with errors. I didn't see it on your site. Kent
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