From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 07:39:07 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 7B2AF10656BD for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:39:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrizach@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5293C8FC1D for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:39:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrizach@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so3982610rvf.43 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 00:39:07 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=D5HLVr/lKJMcGi6eoywdVCGSF7cGiXPkg3n0L/9P24U=; b=dag4JFUbG+LV223zvgaRsyK/rh95/Rqo9TJtd43nlpz7EfRLaroZdfT7bp6Ydr8J71q0UlMHgdy3pwmGsUUUgxi9PIwu9l8v3yl1jWWX4D82JjEJ3btmbfkaLrxZjBM8P0tX7aNlOOWt/CueGOo+re90TuS0BD3rEDhyCSvByVs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=az+s4Ylo1rCDLZHDeLJbs9gokivDmn/ShSZMHAKHBtA6zRAaLBHb83lrLbDsX91yL1HYFmZGTKvs3ShdZ+I/T8BZzDU3NEWVzWCiTB04QDKIdogEp7eIkaY+JIZ8T/RbmekE8V3ufCiRIPeAMuqZ+ea+G119vLfGIPSkXQaDsWU= Received: by 10.141.137.8 with SMTP id p8mr1406832rvn.163.1212046746192; Thu, 29 May 2008 00:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.142.18 with HTTP; Thu, 29 May 2008 00:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4a89d1190805290039k1f2dedb1he342b4a83d7453a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:39:06 +0200 From: "Christian Zachariasen" To: "Gary Kline" , "FreeBSD Mailing Lists" In-Reply-To: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:39:07 -0000 On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, 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. > > About a week ago I viewed my homepage with KDE Konq and almost > flipped out. One "free" commercial historical calender event > feature was glued to the bottom of my blue bar (
) > on the RHS of the page. And yep, the new text and other things > were centered in the middle of the long blue rectangle. > > Since I have a few weeks now to work on things beside research, > it's time to update my main web page. My friend was using IE; > it may be that Konqueror uses a similar parser to position > things on a .php or .html page. > > Other than beginning from Zero and trying to determine exactly > what causes firefox and konq to diverge, do any of you have any > other ideas? I've never learned an HTML editors because of the > learning curve. But:: if/when I come up with a better design for > my home page, I'm willing to try again:: any best (simple) HTML > editors in ports? > > I'd be much obliged for any help here. > > > gary > > > > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I say keep using the technique you're using now. That's what I'd do. Instead of finding a HTML Editor just find a simple text editor and write all your HTML in a clean manner. I don't know where Ted got his statistics from, but most people I know use simple text editors for writing their HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Personally I stick to vi or diakonos on BSD and Notepad2 on Windows. Christian Zachariasen