From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 20:33:43 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 8D3ED106566B for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 20:33:43 +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 2E0508FC1A for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 20:33:42 +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 m4TKXgeZ068753 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:33:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) From: Gary Kline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:33:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> <20080529154629.GA38618@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20080529154629.GA38618@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805291333.38269.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 20:33:43 -0000 On Thu May 29 2008 08:46:29 David Kelly wrote: > 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. Good one, thankee. Using the bg graphic works on my jottings pages because I gave a relative "./Graphics/foo.jpg" pointer. Just checking now with Opera, I still see the "www" page askew. Blue-bar with most strings embedded within it. firefox [ and mozilla ] get it the way I want, opera and konq, nope. tidy? Sorry, must snce i've been wworking on other things, i've lost touch. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org