[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Wouter . Lamee
Hi Matt, If you're writing strict code, the browser is not the best place to do code checking: HTML is very loose in it's definition, as is the code on the web. You should run weblint or something over your code - and fix the important errors - for instance, a missing /li is no

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Sealey
Hello Ian On 19-Jul-01, you wrote: Your mission, though I doubt you'll accept it, is to understand that users cannot read the minds of the developers, are entitled to hold opinions different to your own and, if you invite them to comment on the development, may tell you things you didn't

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Sealey
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 20-Jul-01, you wrote: You should run weblint or something over your code Like I said further on in my e-mail, 'Note that the use of the strict parser I describe above is functionality intended for web page development, not browsing'. I was merely suggesting a

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Wouter . Lamee
Matt, Real web developers use weblint, not Voyager, to make sure their code is sane ;) I know, but the web is also a place where many 'amateurs' (as opposed to professionals) make web pages. They don't use weblint or any other 'development' tools, they're happy if their browser 'shows the

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Sealey
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 20-Jul-01, you wrote: Real web developers use weblint, not Voyager, to make sure their code is sane ;) I know, but the web is also a place where many 'amateurs' (as opposed to professionals) make web pages. They don't use weblint or any other 'development'

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Uffe Holst
In a message of 20-Jul-01 Matt Sealey wrote: Real web developers use weblint, not Voyager, to make sure their code is sane ;) What can I say, most real web developers don't use Voyager at all. Uffe Holst _ Voyager

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Wouter . Lamee
You suck :) Thanks -- Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for being so friendly ... W. _ Voyager Mailing List - http://v3.vapor.com/ Voyager FAQ: http://faq.vapor.com/voyager/ Listserver Help: mailto:[EMAIL

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Sealey
Hello Uffe On 20-Jul-01, you wrote: In a message of 20-Jul-01 Matt Sealey wrote: Real web developers use weblint, not Voyager, to make sure their code is sane ;) What can I say, most real web developers don't use Voyager at all. Isn't that what I said? :) Thanks -- Matt [EMAIL

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Uffe Holst
In a message of 20-Jul-01 Matt Sealey wrote: Real web developers use weblint, not Voyager, to make sure their code is sane ;) What can I say, most real web developers don't use Voyager at all. Isn't that what I said? :) To some extent, yes. Uffe Holst

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
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[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-19 Thread David Le Huray
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 at 20:59:41 Matt Sealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: V supports every applicable and usable entity defined for the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set. Snipped explanation of entity support Of course if any of your team members should be annoyed by this mail, all reported bugs

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-19 Thread Don Cox
On 18-Jul-01, Matt Sealey wrote: As such, V's entity parser is PERFECT, for all intents and purposes, for all behaviours of IE, for entities that represent characters inside the Latin1 codepage. If you really want that to be ABSOLUTELY true, I will drop support for bull; and beta; today.

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-19 Thread David Gerber
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:02:41AM +, Don Cox wrote: How about satisfying everyone by having a preferences option to set the parser for these entities to IE, Strict or Opera ? That would keep everybody happy, until next time. This site doesn't werk! Did you set the prefs to IE ? And I

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-19 Thread Matt Sealey
Hello Don On 19-Jul-01, you wrote: How about satisfying everyone by having a preferences option to set the parser for these entities to IE, Strict or Opera ? That would keep everybody happy, until next time. Don't be stupid, Don. Of course, that involves a fair bit of coding, but it

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-19 Thread Wouter . Lamee
Matt, Hello Don On 19-Jul-01, you wrote: How about satisfying everyone by having a preferences option to set the parser for these entities to IE, Strict or Opera ? That would keep everybody happy, until next time. Don't be stupid, Don. Of course, that involves a fair

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-19 Thread Matt Sealey
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 19-Jul-01, you wrote: First off, I agree with you (as formulated in the amusing M:I style posting), but I do have an answer to your question on why anyone would want 'strict' support: If you're writing pages yourself. If a 'strict' parser is available that is

[voyager] Re: The num; entity, and all entity support in Voyager - a Dummy's Guide To..

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Greenway
Matt Sealey writes... Your mission - Jools, Ian, Mathias - should you choose to accept it, is to read this mail, understand that V works just fine, and quit telling me that it isn't working fine, and that I require looking at it more than I already have to understand something I've known to