From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 07:16:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7DF1065674 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:16:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27558FC1B for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:16:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4T6vdPp063343; Wed, 28 May 2008 23:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 23:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:57:35 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Subject: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:16:31 -0000 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 carefully, with only browsers in the ports tree-- mozilla, firefox, a couple others. About a week ago I viewed my homepage with KDE Konq and almost flipped out. One "free" commercial historical calender event feature was glued to the bottom of my blue bar (
) on the RHS of the page. And yep, the new text and other things were centered in the middle of the long blue rectangle. Since I have a few weeks now to work on things beside research, it's time to update my main web page. My friend was using IE; it may be that Konqueror uses a similar parser to position things on a .php or .html page. 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 design for my home page, I'm willing to try again:: any best (simple) HTML editors in ports? I'd be much obliged for any help here. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org