Re: Question: Netscape Composer

[Andrew DeFaria]

Russ Hunt wrote: Thanks for the suggestion of "file: revert." Never heard of  that convention before (maybe it was there in Netscape 7n, which  had, I thought, the same problem). Good old Netscape 4.7 used to pop up a window telling you the file had been changed and asking which you wanted. That's Automated File Revert!  Not implemented yet! :-) Just kidding. I think the popup thing was a good idea. Perhaps they will implement it. But this: it's regularly impossible to enter a new line in an existing text by pressing <enter>; you have to go into the HTML code manually. I don't consider this a minor glitch . . Works just fine for me! Well, in 60% of the files I've edited, at certain positions in the file pressing <enter> has no effect whatever. Doesn't start a new line, doesn't introduce a line break, nothing. Well I don't know. Just downloaded Nvu recently so I haven't used it that much yet. I tend to write my HTML in either Emacs or Emacs writing Perl or PHP web pages. I tend to use HTML editors to lay out the initial page then, invariable I'm doing something where I want data filled in so I use the html produced as a guide to write the PHP/Perl version of the page. I suspect,  but am not sure, that it has something to do with inconsistencies between CSS and non-CSS, but I've not had time to try to figure out what's causing it. All I know is that in the same files both Netscape 4.7 and Netscape 7.n composers have no problem, and a letter to Nvu brought the helpful response that it's a very early version and there are still bugs in it. Well it may very well be. Personally I would type a character or something easy to find like "FOOBAR" then switch to HTML mode and see where it puts that string. Then analyze the HTML structure a bit. Of course that assumes you know not only HTML but it's structure. Look for unbalanced tags and other oddities. Of course this might be way more than you're willing to do to hunt down the problem. -- The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.