From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 20:05:36 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 2FA5F106564A for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 20:05:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BC28FC1C for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 20:05:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from tao.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 m4TK5YN4068567 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) From: Gary Kline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:05:22 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> <4a89d1190805290039k1f2dedb1he342b4a83d7453a6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4a89d1190805290039k1f2dedb1he342b4a83d7453a6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805291305.22567.kline@thought.org> 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 Subject: Re: 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 20:05:36 -0000 On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, 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. > > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I say keep using the technique you're using now. That's what I'd do. > Instead of finding a HTML Editor > just find a simple text editor and write all your HTML in a clean manner. > > I don't know where Ted got his statistics from, but most people I know use > simple text editors for writing their HTML, CSS > and JavaScript. Personally I stick to vi or diakonos on BSD and Notepad2 on > Windows. > /* * strange:: the way that mutt queues [ and orders ] its replies and theads is * different from kmail. I only use a GUI when there is a URL embedded, but * it must be down-queue. .... */ I would *rather* use vi and HTML-by-hand. And produce very simple, readable, uncluttered pages. I don't use many graphics, e.g., I use the strength of HTML, php, blah ** 3. I'm ready to learn this "CMS" that Ted mentioned if I knew what it was! And if its in ports. AFAIK, the only pages that look bizarre are my initial "www" (and one other based on it). I'll google around to find out what CMS is... > Christian Zachariasen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org