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Date:      Thu, 29 May 2008 10:46:29 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Stumped:: web HTML.  Caution, may be OT.
Message-ID:  <20080529154629.GA38618@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org>
References:  <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org>

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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 fine.  I've done all markup by hand since
> 	'94, very carefully, with only browsers in the ports tree--
> 	mozilla, firefox, a couple others.

Others have suggested online validators. /usr/ports/www/tidy is another
that can check your code, even attempt repairs. Can also be used to
standardize the coding format much like GNU indent for C code. Comes
built-in to BBEdit on Mac where I do most of my HTML authoring.

Eyeballing your code the first thing that stood out was:

        BACKGROUND="/usr/local/www/data/Graphics/paper0.jpg"

Don't think that will work for anyone other than yourself, and only when
you are on the server itself. Unless one has a file with that exact same
name and path.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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