Tim, Yes that is a common problem. Usually I would fix that, but seen as I have about 3 hours to get this tested and handed in I think I will leave it. I'll just underline the links :) Thanks for the complement on the design and the fact you spotted the usability issue. Much appreciated.
James On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Tim Offenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never had a problem with character encodings on web pages, but since I > reinstalled the OS on my iMac I have had an issue. > > Some of my characters, especially when using ' seem to mess up. This is the > page, content and layout are simple as it's for a uni assignment: > http://mi-linux.wlv.ac.uk/~0802390/overview.html<http://mi-linux.wlv.ac.uk/%7E0802390/overview.html> > > Check out the overview.html page, and notice the issues. There is one > noticeable in the overview page "⤗SOAP⤠" > > Any ideas? > (for those interested I do plan to publish a website regarding the > Semantic Web shortly). > > James, > > Running your page through the W3 Validator (validator.w3.org) gives the > following response: > > Error line 5 7 , C o l u m n 2 0 : n o n S G M L c h a r a c t e r n u m b > e r 1 4 5 . > t h e k e y w o r d ë S O A P í i n a s e a r c h e n g i n e w i l l r > e t u r n r e s u l t s > You have used an illegal character in your text. HTML uses the standard > UNICODE Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/) character repertoire, and it > leaves undefined (among others) 65 character codes (0 to 31 inclusive and > 127 to 159 inclusive) that are sometimes used for typographical quote marks > and similar in proprietary character sets. The validator has found one of > these undefined characters in your document. The character may appear on > your browser as a curly quote, or a trademark symbol, or some other fancy > glyph; on a different computer, however, it will likely appear as a > completely different character, or nothing at all. > > Your best bet is to replace the character with the nearest equivalent ASCII > character, or to use an appropriate character entity ( > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html). > > For more information on Character Encoding on the web, see Alan Flavell's > excellent HTML Character Set Issues</a> reference ( > http://web.archive.org/web/20060425191748/ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flave<http://web.archive.org/web/20060425191748/ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflave> > ll/charset/). > > End of quote. > > I always recommend people use UTF-8 because it's a much larger character > set than ISO-8859-1. I also recommend use of XHTML Transitional rather than > HTML DTD's. > > On a side note, I like your page, very attractive. But I found the 1, 2, 3, > ... buttons at the top confusing because I kept trying to click the number. > Then I tried clicking the blue text, both of which produced nothing. Finally > my cursor wandered over the black text and I realized it was the link. > Perhaps underlining that link or making it dynamic like the button would > prevent the confusion I encountered. On the other hand, perhaps I just need > another cup of coffee! > > Peace, > > -Tim > > > > -- > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Tim Offenstein *** Campus Accessibility Liaison *** (217) > 244-2700 > CITES Departmental Services *** www.uiuc.edu/goto/offenstein > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
