NetSurf and eBay
How come *some* item pages on ebay.co.uk display a usable 'add to watch list' link on the right-hand side - like this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=130608393510 (no, I was not going to buy that!) and some, like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HUGE-Ruby-idea-red-sterling-Silver-Gemstone-Ring-BK9F9R1-s7-/300628604992?pt=Gemstone_Ringshash=item45fedc7840 have only a javascript link? And is there a reliable way of toggling between them? (Hang on - I think I've answered my own question. It all depends on whether you're logged in or not. If you're not logged, in it directs you to a page where you can log in and save the item to your watchlist; if you're logged in, it attempts to do the whole thing via Javascript. It would be much more useful if it were the other way round (you have to save the URL, then log out, then log in again) but it's a backdoor they evidently forgot about when they were implementing their Javascript-only features) -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
accented characters in Google translate
There is a problem with accented characters in some webpage text areas. (and as this note contains accented characters I fear it may not be readable by all mail clients) These two links demonstrate the problem. Link (a) accepts accents, link (b) does not. (a) http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt (b) http://translate.google.com/ You can see the behavior by:- setting the language pairs to Spanish/English, and pasting the following text SILLÓN: respuesta positiva de Yoko Ono a John. then clicking Translate. For me, at any rate, the Google page replaces the accented character by a question mark. If I replace the accented ø by O Google manages to read it. The Yahoo page works without complaint. I think this is a NetSurf feature rather than Google's as on Linux Firefox Google accepts the accents. And FWIW NetSurf has always behaved this way. John -- Midland User Group - http://mug.riscos.org A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and won't change the subject. WC
Re: accented characters in Google translate
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 19:25 +0100, rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: There is a problem with accented characters in some webpage text areas. (and as this note contains accented characters I fear it may not be readable by all mail clients) These two links demonstrate the problem. Link (a) accepts accents, link (b) does not. (a) http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt (b) http://translate.google.com/ You can see the behavior by:- setting the language pairs to Spanish/English, and pasting the following text SILLÓN: respuesta positiva de Yoko Ono a John. then clicking Translate. For me, at any rate, the Google page replaces the accented character by a question mark. If I replace the accented ø by O Google manages to read it. The Yahoo page works without complaint. I think this is a NetSurf feature rather than Google's as on Linux Firefox Google accepts the accents. And FWIW NetSurf has always behaved this way. No. This is a bug in Google Translate. It serves the page to NetSurf in the ISO-8859-1 character set. NetSurf then submits your data in this character set, encoding the O-acute correctly. This then fails to be interpreted correctly by the server. The reason it works in Firefox, is that Google serve the page in the UTF-8 character set to that browser. John-Mark.
