On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:24:16 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> What is different about these "yahoo page builder" tables that
> stretches the page length and fails to put text where desired? What's
> meant to be a lovely page ends up being a botched hard-to-follow mess.
> Or so it is with v1.70r3
Well...... Arachne v1.70;r3 and Netscape v4.5
display that page in almost exactly the same layout.
(Including almost 4 full pages of "nothing")
So, it's not an Arachne table rendering problem. ;-)
First, the 11 page layout from Netscape.
(1 to 5 are 2 pages each)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebas01.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebas02.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebas03.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebas04.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebas05.jpg
(sceen-cap #6 is page 11)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebas06.jpg
Next, the 11 page layout from Arachne.
(1 to 7 are one page each)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebaa01.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebaa02.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebaa03.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebaa04.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebaa05.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebaa06.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/shebaa07.jpg
(pages 8 to 11 all in one sceen-cap)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/sheba811.jpg
****** Caution, these are HUGE files ******
[OPENDOS 7.01] C:\>sf.exe -lhstwa \shebas\*.jpg
Listing directory: C:\SHEBAS\
Name mask: *.JPG
SHEBAS01.JPG 66608 3-30-2001 23:21:22 -----A--
SHEBAS02.JPG 75295 3-30-2001 23:21:24 -----A--
SHEBAS03.JPG 64956 3-30-2001 23:21:24 -----A--
SHEBAS04.JPG 55118 3-30-2001 23:21:26 -----A--
SHEBAS05.JPG 40801 3-30-2001 23:21:26 -----A--
SHEBAS06.JPG 35860 3-30-2001 23:21:28 -----A--
SHEBAA01.JPG 159477 3-30-2001 23:21:06 -----A--
SHEBAA02.JPG 172390 3-30-2001 23:21:08 -----A--
SHEBAA03.JPG 149571 3-30-2001 23:21:12 -----A--
SHEBAA04.JPG 196088 3-30-2001 23:21:14 -----A--
SHEBAA05.JPG 158773 3-30-2001 23:21:16 -----A--
SHEBAA06.JPG 147130 3-30-2001 23:21:18 -----A--
SHEBAA07.JPG 176378 3-30-2001 23:21:20 -----A--
SHEBA811.JPG 536056 3-30-2001 23:21:04 -----A--
Sub-Directories: 0
2034501 bytes used in 14 files.
2034501 bytes used in 14 files in 1 directories.
***** Compare them to the ZBMs ;-) ******
[OPENDOS 7.01] C:\>sf.exe -lhstwa \shebas\*.zbm
Listing directory: C:\SHEBAS\
Name mask: *.ZBM
SHEBAS01.ZBM 40206 3-30-2001 23:22:52 -----A--
SHEBAS02.ZBM 28500 3-30-2001 23:22:54 -----A--
SHEBAS03.ZBM 23527 3-30-2001 23:22:56 -----A--
SHEBAS04.ZBM 28710 3-30-2001 23:22:56 -----A--
SHEBAS05.ZBM 7935 3-30-2001 23:22:58 -----A--
SHEBAS06.ZBM 8239 3-30-2001 23:22:58 -----A--
SHEBAA01.ZBM 212192 3-30-2001 23:22:28 -----A--
SHEBAA02.ZBM 210327 3-30-2001 23:22:32 -----A--
SHEBAA03.ZBM 188466 3-30-2001 23:22:36 -----A--
SHEBAA04.ZBM 125222 3-30-2001 23:22:40 -----A--
SHEBAA05.ZBM 125453 3-30-2001 23:22:42 -----A--
SHEBAA06.ZBM 119348 3-30-2001 23:22:46 -----A--
SHEBAA07.ZBM 212050 3-30-2001 23:22:50 -----A--
SHEBA811.ZBM 269734 3-30-2001 23:22:24 -----A--
Sub-Directories: 0
1599909 bytes used in 14 files.
1599909 bytes used in 14 files in 1 directories.
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Glenn
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