I can't speak for AbiWord, but although html is supposed to be a "universal language", it's nowhere close. Until such time as a single browser (preferably Mozilla or Opera) is widely enough accepted that there truly is a universal standard for html, it's nearly impossible and a hell of a job when it's possible to make a page that behaves exactly the same on both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. That's not to mention such obscure browsers as AOL's.
Do this: Make an html page (or ask someone fluent in html to do it for you) that uses the <layer> tag constantly, along with JavaScript and CSS, if possible. Then, open it on Netscape, Internet Explorer, StarOffice, and Lynx. I can guarentee you, it will look different on each one. So what is AbiWord to do? When a browser comes across a tag it doesn't understand, it simply ignores it. Abominably bad code works on even the worst of browsers, assuming it doesn't use browser-specific tags. But AbiWord apparently gives up when it doesn't understand something. I could be wrong. It could be a bug in AbiWord that keeps it from loading ANY html pages, but I'm almost positive that even if it could, it's not really a good idea. How big is the page? When I need to make an AbiWord document out of an html page, I open it in a browser, select all the text and copy it, and, depending on my needs, either paste directly to AbiWord or right-click (in AbiWord) and hit "paste unformatted". Both ways will probalby leave you without much formatting to do, unless it's a very complex web page (images, links, etc.) but it usually works for my purposes. >===== Original Message From Dennis Tuchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >According to my experience,the current abiword won't load .htm >documents. I asked it to load two *.htm documents and it stated that >both are "bogus". I had no trouble loading them into and editing them >in the word processor of Star Office 5.2. > >dj tuchler > > >----------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word >unsubscribe in the message body. ____________________________________________________________ woof! woof! I'm @dog.com Get your free @dog e-mail at http://www.dog.com ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
