Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/02/16/19:09:48
In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990216094047 DOT 14991E-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes
You do an absolutely brilliant FAQ, and I'm not trying to
make your life harder.
>
>On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Dave Bird wrote:
>
>> By the time I hit "if you are in a hurry" (I was) I hit a
>> very buggy bit.
>
>Thanks for your comments. I will save them and try to correct them
>when I release the next version of the FAQ. However, I'm afraid that
>I cannot do much about most of what you write, since I cannot work
>around every bug in every browser out there. I test the FAQ with
>several versions of several browsers available to me, but I cannot
>test them all, and I cannot track the bugs the new releases introduce
>every month in their constant race to put out newer and buggier
>versions.
Entirely appreciated. Your HTML is a great deal more standard
than my web-page, which is on a one-browser-and-hope basis.
>
>> The link to "Table of Contents" is actually to "Top" -- way
>> above the table of contents.
>
>I use Texinfo to generate the FAQ in all formats. Until now, Texinfo
>didn't support links to something that isn't a node, and most Web
>browsers aren't smart enough to find the string that is part of the
>link text, like Info does, and instead land you at the beginning of
>the node, which is useless in many cases.
>
>The next version of Texinfo will support links to anchors that I can
>put anywhere, so I will be able to handle this issue more
>intelligently.
OK.
>
>> Additionally, the HTML source
>> uses enormously wide lines which is OK if it 100% works and
>> users never need to view source, but....
>
>..but what? Why is the appearence of the HTML source important? The
>FAQ source explicitly says at the beginning NOT to look at it, as it
>is ugly.
If a link fails to link, the lusers are likely to view the source
to find out what's happening (whether or not they're supposed to).
>
>The are good technical reason for this ugliness which I won't go
>into. If you are intersted, download the FAQ sources (faq211s.zip)
>and look at the process the HTML output is generated.
>
>> The links to "Program Index" and "Topic Index" are funny.
>> They don't work in Netscape4; I don't think it likes spaces
>> in names.
>
>Netscape 3 doesn't have any problems with the indices. I suggest to
>downgrade.
This is going to be fun as I have to shut down and enter an
alternative boot partition. OK. My main partition has a copy
of Netscape Navigator 4.04, won't link on those two names.
Djgpp partition has netscape 3, it links on them.
I don't know why netscape have decided to make your life harder
by changing the rules for version 4; I'll use version 3.
>
>(The problems with spaces in link names is very hard to solve with
>present tools; the next version of Texinfo will solve this for me.)
>
>> In Internet Exploder they work but Back doesn't
>> work with local names, it goes "back" to the top of the file;
>
>I cannot reproduce this problem in IE. What version did you use?
It seems to be version 3.0 and I can't understand why it's a
very old version; I think perhaps it came with the newsreader
installation CD. Hmm. You're going to tell me this is fixed
later, aren't you? I'll just go back to sleep :-(.
Sorry to have troubled you.
The problem that the new version of Netscape has lumbered you
with re spaces in names is genuine enough; although I appreciate
what you say above about the technical difficulty of dealing
with *their* incompatibilities between versions.
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