From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 02:11:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28850 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28821 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:11:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA03973; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 02:35:43 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 02:35:42 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net Reply-To: groggy@iname.com To: Steve Friedrich cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: lynx apology In-Reply-To: <199809291546.LAA20948@laker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, before you slit your wrists, could you answer a question (which > might make you rethink slitting your wrists)?? hehe ;) ok, i'll reconsider ... > Did any of the HTML validators catch the problem?? well, they catch many things that are ok with browsers (like in 
 blocks), and don't necessarily
catch the exact problem, though a problem there
may be.  but in general, they can tell you if something
is perfect or not.  but "perfect" to a validator doesn't
necessarily mean a good web page, and "error found ..."
doesn't necessarily mean it isn't OK with all browsers.

i just try lynx and netscape, and if it looks ok
with those, it's "valid" HTML to me ...  but it's
good to know the rules also.

> Many examples of this exist in this business.  Consider the stupid
> error messages programmed into DOS, i.e., "Command or file name not
> found"!!  That pathetic piece of shit doesn't even know if it can't

my favorite is 'Abort, Retry, or Fail'.
since 1986, it's almost always takes me a
few keystrokes to get by that one  ...  ;)
(hehe - do i want it to Abort or Fail ???)

nuff said.  thanks.

-- why is it when i HAVE to use windows,
   the first thing i do is open a DOS box?



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