On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:01:10AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:30:12PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:10:27PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > > SLUGs:
> > >
> > > Someone has mentioned to me offlist that they have a very hard time with
> > > the SLUG site in Konqueror. From what I gather, it seems that pages
> > > require and unbelievable amount of scrolling to get to the end, with a
> > > lot of blank space on them.
> > >
<snip>
> Alrighty then. I see what may be the problem(s). First, the raw HTML
> pages for the SLUG site contain a great many newlines, because of the
> way they are built. I'm guessing Konqueror has a problem with this
> (though it shouldn't). Second, the SLUG site uses embedded stylesheets.
> It's possible Konqueror has a problem with this as well, but it's less
> likely that it would produce these effects. (Again, this is a deficiency
> in Konqueror's HTML rendering engine.) The stylesheets are there
> primarily to enforce sans serif text, since I believe this looks more
> modern and easier to read on the web. However, even the Netscape I run
> has problems with stylesheets, so I had to code around a lot of Netscape
> deficiencies to make them work.
<snip>
Okay, I've removed all the extraneous newlines from the HTML files on
the SLUG pages. I have _not_ removed the embedded stylesheets. You can
go look and see now. (BTW, don't forget to refresh the page!).
Also checked this in my newly downloaded Opera. Looks a little odd, but
it's a _nice_ browser.
Paul
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