[LRflex] Re: Way way off topic - HTML help request...
- From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:56:12 -0800
On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:48 AM, David Young wrote:
> At 2/9/2010, you wrote:
>> "Mike B." wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe Chrome just can't handle it.
>>
>> Doesn't work on Safari either. David, what program did you use to
>> make the web page?
>
> Hi Doug!
>
> It's a mish-mash. My old site was built with MS-Frontpage ... worked
> OK. However, the new flash code I'm using (Simpleviewer) needs CSS
> (Cascading Style Sheets), which my old FP won't handle. So I switched
> to Trellian WebPage and started modifying the original code. That,
> however, proved "buggy", losing 1/2 the code, ever second save. So,
> on many recommendations, I switched to Kompozer, which seems to work
> very well. After some fiddling, the code worked with Firefox... but
> was "flaky" with IE8. More work and it runs with Firefox, Opera,
> Slimbrowser and IE8. However, Google's Chrome, and Safari have
> problems with it.
which browsers are the default critical ones, especially with an eye to the
future...?
I'd pick Firefox, Google, Safari, maybe IE whatever...
not sure which is the most stringent, ie rigorously correct and demanding in
terms of code,
find out, and make it for that one first...
Steve
>
> A chap on the Simpleviewer forum suggested I remove the HTML
> declarations and substitute <html> at the head. However, when I
> remove that with Kompozer, it puts it back in, automagically, when it
> saves the file. I have tried removing this bit of code with several
> html optimized ASCII editors (ConText, PS-Pad) and even Open Office
> in ascii mode. None will read the Kompozer html files! However,
> Kompozer reads 'em just fine, and the uploads work on "most" browsers.
>
> So, unless someone here is a "closet HTML wizard" and can sort out my
> little problem from the page source, I think I'll bite the bullet,
> and start from scratch, and do it all again. Obviously, in all the
> swapping about, something is awry - something not all browsers can
> handle... and I, as an HTML illiterate, cannot fathom it out.
>
> Thanks.
>
> David.
>
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