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  • Hugh Newbury

    Update help and advice please

    Hi:

    My two websites date from the Ark, and I would like to upgrade/start
    again. Please advise me where to go to get the latest reliable reference
    to HTML etc. I'd prefer a book: my last buy was in 1999 (!) Osborne's
    _Complete Reference to HTML_. What is the equivalent in 2007?

    The reason for all this is that I discover Firefox 2.0.0.6 can't see my
    frames, unlike 2.0.0.4.

    Any help gratefully received.

    Hugh

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    Hugh Newbury

    Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset
  • Hugh Newbury

    #2
    Re: Update help and advice please

    Andy Dingley wrote:
    On 12 Sep, 10:37, Hugh Newbury <h...@hnewbury. uklinux.netwrot e:
    >
    >The reason for all this is that I discover Firefox 2.0.0.6 can't see my
    >frames, unlike 2.0.0.4.
    >
    Post a URL so that we can see it, there's probably some simple short-
    term fix for it.
    >


    Very many thanks for your help. I'm sure you're right that I've mucked
    it up somehow trying to get it to work again.

    Hugh

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    Hugh Newbury

    Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset

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    • GArlington

      #3
      Re: Update help and advice please

      On 12 Sep, 11:54, Hugh Newbury <h...@hnewbury. uklinux.netwrot e:
      Andy Dingley wrote:
      On 12 Sep, 10:37, Hugh Newbury <h...@hnewbury. uklinux.netwrot e:
      >
      The reason for all this is that I discover Firefox 2.0.0.6 can't see my
      frames, unlike 2.0.0.4.
      >
      Post a URL so that we can see it, there's probably some simple short-
      term fix for it.
      >

      >
      Very many thanks for your help. I'm sure you're right that I've mucked
      it up somehow trying to get it to work again.
      >
      Hugh
      >
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      >
      Hugh Newbury
      >
      Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset
      Which frames can you NOT see?

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      • Hugh Newbury

        #4
        Re: Update help and advice please

        GArlington wrote:
        >
        Which frames can you NOT see?
        >
        This is weird. It seems to be working now. But it *really* wasn't last
        night. Clicking any of the navigation frame links produced that page in
        full frame, IYSWIM. The header and nav frames were overwritten. I'd
        better leave it for now. I don't see how it can work one afternoon, but
        not in the evening before! I'll get back to you if it throws another wobbly.

        But all your help is invaluable. Thank you all.

        Hugh

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        Hugh Newbury

        Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset

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        • Andy Dingley

          #5
          Re: Update help and advice please

          On 12 Sep, 13:43, GArlington <garling...@tis cali.co.ukwrote :
          Which frames can you NOT see?
          I can't see _anything_.

          Come back in an hour or two when my eyeballs have recovered from the
          glaring yellow and green colour scheme!


          The obvious suckage here is the bogus doctype declaration that
          HotMetal has stuck on the top of the pages. I suggest that the OP
          manually cut and paste an appropriate one for HTML 4.01 Transitional
          with standards-based rendering (copy it from Henri Sivonen's page, as
          listed previously).

          Then poke at it with the HTML validators, Tidy etc. There's a lot you
          _could_ improve, but as far as a "frame based legacy page" goes,
          there's nothing that's _obviously_ wrong with it (There might be, but
          with that bogus DTD it's too awkward to tell automatically as yet).

          I'm seeing all the frames I'd expect to see, and that's with FF 2.0.0.6

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          • Jonathan N. Little

            #6
            Re: Update help and advice please

            Hugh Newbury wrote:
            GArlington wrote:
            >Which frames can you NOT see?
            >>
            >
            This is weird. It seems to be working now. But it *really* wasn't last
            night. Clicking any of the navigation frame links produced that page in
            full frame, IYSWIM. The header and nav frames were overwritten. I'd
            better leave it for now. I don't see how it can work one afternoon, but
            not in the evening before! I'll get back to you if it throws another wobbly.
            Was your CTRL key stuck? In Windows and Linux CTRL + Left Click opens
            link in a new tab by default...

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            Take care,

            Jonathanopen
            -------------------
            LITTLE WORKS STUDIO

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            • Hugh Newbury

              #7
              Re: Update help and advice please

              Jonathan N. Little wrote:
              Was your CTRL key stuck? In Windows and Linux CTRL + Left Click opens
              link in a new tab by default...
              >
              Don't think so.

              Hugh

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              Hugh Newbury

              Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset

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              • Hugh Newbury

                #8
                Re: Update help and advice please

                Andy Dingley wrote:
                On 12 Sep, 13:43, GArlington <garling...@tis cali.co.ukwrote :
                >>
                >Which frames can you NOT see?
                >
                I can't see _anything_.
                >
                Come back in an hour or two when my eyeballs have recovered from the
                glaring yellow and green colour scheme!
                It was supposed to be creamy butter and green fields, such as we have
                down here!
                >
                The obvious suckage here is the bogus doctype declaration that
                HotMetal has stuck on the top of the pages. I suggest that the OP
                manually cut and paste an appropriate one for HTML 4.01 Transitional
                with standards-based rendering (copy it from Henri Sivonen's page, as
                listed previously).
                Will do.
                >
                Then poke at it with the HTML validators, Tidy etc. There's a lot you
                _could_ improve, but as far as a "frame based legacy page" goes,
                there's nothing that's _obviously_ wrong with it (There might be, but
                with that bogus DTD it's too awkward to tell automatically as yet).
                I'll try that too.
                I'm seeing all the frames I'd expect to see, and that's with FF 2.0.0.6
                >
                I'll work at all that and get back to you-all.

                Hope you get your eyesight back soon.

                Thanks again

                Hugh

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                Hugh Newbury

                Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset

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                • Andy Dingley

                  #9
                  Re: Update help and advice please

                  On 12 Sep, 15:26, Hugh Newbury <h...@hnewbury. uklinux.netwrot e:
                  It was supposed to be creamy butter and green fields, such as we have
                  down here!
                  Whatever colour you pick, turn down the saturation to about half what
                  you expected. If someone sees it less strongly than you do, they won't
                  mind. if they see it more strongly than you do (and that includes the
                  majority of Mac users), then they're likely to find their eyeballs
                  rolling around on the floor afterwards. Better too subtle than too
                  heavy.

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