Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:21:50 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: > Sorry, Glenn, but I think you did not read my entire post - the forum > message displays fine in Mozilla, without any changes to the HTML text. > Also, like I said in my earlier post, changing the width of the first > element in the table slightly suddenly makes Arachne display it just > like in Mozilla, which IMO is what it should probably look like. > Also, I think the web browser is supposed to wrap text that does not fit > in one line automatically, but not where Arachne does it - it should > wrap the text so that it matches the width of the table. > If *you* do not believe *me*, then simply look at the posts with Mozilla > or another so-called "standard" browser, and you will note the > difference between how those browsers display them and your "fixed" > version. > The basic problem is that web pages are designed to display fine in IE > and Mozilla, and if the Arachne user has to manually change them to make > them display fine in Arachne, too, it won't do Arachne any good. > Just like with the problem with '&' in URLs, even if you strongly > feel that it is a bug in the HTML text of those web pages, most people > who know IE or Mozilla would rather say that it is a bug in Arachne. > So please do the Arachne community a favour and change this, okay? > Otherwise Arachne will earn a reputation of not being able to display > even simple web pages correctly. Looking closer at the 1st problem you pointed-out, I now see that you are correct. There is in-fact a problem in Arachne. Sorry to have doubted you. I will look into fixing this problem and let you know what I find. -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --