Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:20:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Message-ID: <20080530032001.GG62524@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <54db43990805291514l52140608le23b39a760a64a0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> <54db43990805291514l52140608le23b39a760a64a0c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 5/29/08, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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
> [...]
> > I'd be much obliged for any help here.
> >
> >
>
> Konqueror says that the comment that reads
>
> <!-- click on Graphic to goto jottings.thought.org --!>
>
> isn't closed until the end of the next comment way down the page, so
> it is ignoring all the code in between. I think that's your problem
> (there is a typo in the close of the comment). In other words,
> Konqueror seems to be displaying the page correctly. The other
> browsers are probably (incorrectly) treating end-of-line as
> end-of-comment.
>
> When you "View Document Source" in Konqueror, it highlights the markup
> to make it easier to spot such problems, and comments stand out pretty
> distinctly. In fact, it appears there are a few other places with that
> same typo (closing a comment with "--!>").
>
yes! it looks like you are right on the money! next time you
are in seattle, i'll buy you a beer.
(also, this may explain why sometimes my comments bombbed during
testing. i thought "<! ...... !> was *legal*. *mumble::censored*)
thank you * 1000,
gary
> - Bob
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