Hi again, Steve,
The trip to the NetMechanic link given did find the html errors in that
particular page 10.htm, and since I've incorporated those fixes in that
webpage and it all works properly. I'm not very good with html, so the
NetMechanic report was a huge help that enabled me to fumble thru! Ron
Ferguson had provided enough input on this to make me realize I needed
serious help here!
My 10.htm contains a most of the data output possible to be generated by
Legacy, but not all of it. You're absolutely correct that the Legacy
programmers will have to watch that all possible data items are again
included in their work, but that's their job, isn't it? Hopefully our
efforts here will be useful to them in reprogramming, and also hopefully the
programmers will also run their own html checks next time, before issuing
the fixes in a new build!
We Legacy users simply have neither expertise nor time to go thru this
process on all our respective thousands of pages, and if/when Legacy gives
us the fixes in a new build, this puts an end to it all.
As said, I am now working on a few suggested formatting revisions, and will
add a special set of links to various problem/solution pages being created
as this proceeds. Then I'll post one last time about such, and hopefully
our efforts will be helpful to the programmers so that we'll eventually get
a Legacy fix!
RonKZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Silverman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 31 May, 2005 07:01
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pedigree Webpages
Hi Ron,
I just wanted to offer a solution that would allow you to publish your
pages with the least amount of work.
To find errors in the program generated output is trivial, simply take
unaltered program output and pass it through one of the many available
HTML validation programs.
However, from a programming point of view, the data contained in your
database
may trigger different HTML for different pages. i.e. the HTML for one
persons
page may not follow the exact structure for another person. This is where
things such as missing end tags will come into play... these will be
harder
to correct than say incorrect attribute names.
Steve
--- On Mon 05/30, Ron Klotz Zellhoefer < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Ron Klotz Zellhoefer [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 10:26:04 -0600
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pedigree Webpages
Steve,
What we are hoping to accomplish on this thread is to find numerous errors
in Legacy's Pedigree-style webpage output, the worst of those being that a
left border cannot be added except at the unacceptable cost of causing the
webpage to disintegrate. Legacy's other webpage formats do not appear to
have this problem.
From long experience, it seems that using frames for genealogy websites
creates real headaches for www viewers who try to capture data for their
own
family history.
Regardless, we're trying here to find solutions to the various glitches in
Legacy's html code for their Pedigree webpage, making them viable for
whatever "usual" editing we might do with such afterward. Frames have
nothing to do with the solutions we seek.
That said, we can use all the help we can get within these parameters, and
you have obvious useful knowledge and talents! For this purpose I've set
up
a temorary website at http://zelltree.tripod.com, and here at home I have
been working very long days trying to ID the glitches and create useful
corrections and alternatives. This is a "working test website", so
progress
will be uploaded as appropriate.
We could sure use your help in this area!
Thanks
RonKZ
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