Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:34:26PM -0600, Modulok wrote: looks like what i need NOW is a debugger, :-) i have virtually zero design skills except keep it simple To quote Albert Einstein, Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. As far as editors and

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-06-03 Thread Modulok
looks like what i need NOW is a debugger, :-) i have virtually zero design skills except keep it simple To quote Albert Einstein, Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Much of the problem with the web today is the reliance on 'designers,' who are primarily

RE: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-06-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Shute Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:51 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Gary Kline; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:07:56PM

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:19 +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: At 2008-05-30T21:28:58-07:00, Gary Kline wrote: Any guesses why things like this blowup:: !doctype html public -//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en The quoted string above is the so-called Formal Public Identifier (FPI) of

RE: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DAve Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:31 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/29/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: On 5/29/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black [...]

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:52:31AM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I suspect that using an editor that _correctly_ highlights HTML code would solve most of your problems. Yes, that is why I suggested tidy in addition to the other online validators. If one's editor tool doesn't help, tidy is close

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Gary Kline
HTML. Caution, may be OT. you probably didn't start with the earlier markup. back then, '93-4, there was BR,P, B, and EM. i wrote a 2.2K-line program to handle hi - ``hi'' and a couple other things. the code has evolved, of course, but still works. Not the case. I use

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Kent
On Friday 30 May 2008 12:04:16 pm Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:31:01AM -0400, DAve wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline I nearly spit coffee on my keyboard! I agree with you

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:39:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:05:36PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: [[ ... ]] /* * strange:: the way that mutt queues [ and orders ] its replies and threads

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:07:56PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:14 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Kevin Downey; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 02:04:51PM -0700, Kent wrote: On Friday 30 May 2008 12:04:16 pm Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:31:01AM -0400, DAve wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:49:50PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:39:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Questions on validation 4. Steal a simple page that validates: http://www.shute.org.uk/miscellany.html and use it as a

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-05-30T21:28:58-07:00, Gary Kline wrote: Any guesses why things like this blowup:: !doctype html public -//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en The quoted string above is the so-called Formal Public Identifier (FPI) of the DTD, i.e., the standard, that your HTML page claims to conform

Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and checked with firefox; things looked fine. I've done all markup by hand since '94, very

RE: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
. It is understanding how all the things work together. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:58 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Several weeks ago a friend

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin Downey
Subject: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and checked with firefox; things looked fine. I've

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Christian Zachariasen
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and checked with firefox;

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Gary Kline wrote: Other than beginning from Zero and trying to determine exactly what causes firefox and konq to diverge, do any of you have any other ideas? I've never learned an HTML editors because of the learning

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-05-28T23:57:35-07:00, Gary Kline wrote: Other than beginning from Zero and trying to determine exactly what causes firefox and konq to diverge, do any of you have any other ideas? I've never learned an HTML editors because of the learning curve. But:: if/when I come up with a better

RE: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Kevin Downey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Let be the first of many to say, please do not top post. Let me be the first to say please don't quote the entire posting and the entire response. In a recent interview it was revealed that the New York Times does a

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:57:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and checked with firefox; things looked

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the deep-blue bg

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread DAve
Gary Kline wrote: On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu May 29 2008 08:46:29 David Kelly wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:57:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu May 29 2008 13:26:43 DAve wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:52:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu May 29 2008 13:26:43 DAve wrote: ... memory to load all the required libs in displaying Hello World. Some of the CMS tools are very very heavy. Straight static HTML can be blisteringly fast in comparison unless you have

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
FWIW, I'Ve switch back to mutt. i can't live without vi On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:30:05AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Don't bother, Gary. The world is moving towards CMS systems for hosting websites. do we have such a mngnmt system tool in ports??

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:38:05AM -0700, Kevin Downey wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[ ... ]] Konq uses more or less the same rendering engine as Safari. interesting. where is this browser in ports. locate doesnt

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read.

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:00:57AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Kevin Downey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Let be the first of many to say, please do not top post. Let me be the first to say please don't quote the entire posting and the entire

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/29/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black [...] I'd be much obliged for any help here. Konqueror says that the comment that reads !-- click on

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread cpghost
On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:50:53 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The world is moving towards CMS systems for hosting websites. do we have such a mngnmt system tool in ports?? How about Plone or other Zope-based apps? Plone is in ports: /usr/ports/www/plone3 as is Silva:

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:05:36PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: [[ ... ]] /* * strange:: the way that mutt queues [ and orders ] its replies and threads is * different from kmail. I only use a GUI when there is a

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: On 5/29/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black [...] I'd be much obliged for any help here.

RE: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:51 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. you probably didn't start with the earlier

RE: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:14 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Kevin Downey; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Chill down a bit, okay? first, (as the OP), i did

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread DAve
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:51 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. you probably didn't start