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Re: Re: [OT] HTML rant

2004-11-05 10:15:17

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From: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 5:48 PM
Subject: [spf-discuss] Re: [OT] HTML rant


jpinkerton wrote:

 [why.html]
I'll see what I can do about this - what format do you want
the result in?

Three options:

1 - just plain text (maybe optional)
2 - the old spf.pobox layout (= <pre>....</pre> within a
    single working table)
3 - the new layout replacing all absolute width= dimensions
    in the nested tables containing <pre>....</pre> by some
    equivalent CSS constructs.

At the moment the problem is that legacy browsers don't grok
CSS (okay, that's a feature and no bug), but they do respect
the width= stuff.  And a table with width=1000 within a table
with width=500 simply doesn't work well.  The actual widths
are different.  I tested to delete all width= in the output
and got a very wide (horizontal scrollbar) but visible result.


Well, anyone who designs a website with absolute widths is an idiot ;-)

I'll do something based on your options Frank, but not soon I'm afraid -
there's slightly more urgent things on my desk right now.





Try the form before you slate it completely

I did, and I sent a copy of the PHP error message to you and
Koen by mail, check your old inbound ;-)  But ignore it, you
fixed all PHP errors already.

it goes to Koen's nice little help group who will respond
via their wiki.

Okay, then it's not what I wanted, because it was no problem
for the SPF experts, but a simple "webmaster" PHP issue.

Yep - thanks for t=letting me know - I was actually playing around when you
caught me with the wrong permissions set :-/


I *much* prefer to not have an e-mail link - not even an
obfuscated one - the spammers are not far from cracking them
too......

As I said elsewhere, at the moment spam sent to my "webmaster"
address obfuscated on <http://purl.net/xyzzy/privacy.htm> is
minimal.  The <link ref="made" href="redirected" /> on all of
my pages is still one twist too much for the harvesters.


Hmm -- I can see at least two other references to "mailto:"; in the source on
that page, and another one on a page directly linked from it.  Not good
enough for my taste,  I'll put up options on the contact form so that
different "send" buttons will send the info to different places according to
the senders wishes - spfhelp team on their RT, or website bugs, or
hatever  -- I'm sure I'll get a few more suggested ;-)


Slainte,

JohnP.
johnp(_at_)idimo(_dot_)com
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