Hi Jody, ... I cheat! I don't put in a DOCTYPE and leave HTMLTIdy to work out the appropriate one from what it finds in my code! Easy! Greg...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Aug 1, 2002 10:21 am
Hi Jody, ... Huh? ;-) If you question is "will XHTML work in all browsers" the answer is yes provided you skip the XML declaration on the first line, include a...
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Adam Weston
adam_weston@...
Aug 1, 2002 9:56 pm
Considering where it comes from, I would guess one of the following to be true: 1) The flash file is open source or 2) They would grant permission to use it if...
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paul
paulusthewoo...
Aug 2, 2002 12:09 pm
i've just reinstalled notetab pro (v. 4.90) as i was getting error messages every time i booted up - something about the tclipbook - plus an increasing number...
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Jody
notetabber
Aug 8, 2002 7:18 am
Hi All, Thanks for your previous help! I would like to sync the first HTML file in a group of ten to open when I switch to that group. The best way I can...
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Ron Woodall
nor@...
Aug 8, 2002 1:10 pm
Hi Jody: This one takes a bit of organizing but it's not difficult. It's covered in the Coding Notes of the Compendium, under frames. Follow through the...
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Bob Garsson
bgarsson4
Aug 8, 2002 5:42 pm
What is the Coding Notes of the Compendium?...
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Jody
notetabber
Aug 8, 2002 6:42 pm
Hi Ron, Thanks Ron! I thought I might have to do that. <g> Is the "Coding Notes of the Compendium" free and if so, from where? I think you gave me enough...
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Lloyd
lloyd2pmel
Aug 9, 2002 2:12 am
Hi Jody, Is this anything like you had in mind? <frameset <frameset cols="25%,75%" frameborder="YES" bordercolor="#ffcccc" border="1"> <frame...
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Ron Woodall
nor@...
Aug 9, 2002 12:42 pm
Hi Jody: ... The Compendium is available at www.htmlcompendium.org. Yes, access is currently free but subscriptions will apply in the fall to commercial, ...
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Ron Woodall
nor@...
Aug 9, 2002 12:42 pm
Hi All: ... Sorry about that. It was quite arrogant of me to assume that you all knew of the Compendium. It is a reference for the HyperText Markup Language...
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Fay
feigh@...
Aug 12, 2002 2:13 pm
I have two questions. 1. I'd like to make a printer friendly version of a page, and I'd like to click something to make the printable page open without...
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Fay
feigh@...
Aug 12, 2002 4:12 pm
I've worked out how to make a link back and forth between page and printable page, but I still don't know how to make an unbreakable hyphen. Does anyone know,...
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john041650
Aug 12, 2002 5:17 pm
Hello Fay, Just enclose a regular hyphen (or any other text) that you do not want to wrap inside of the following tags: <nobr>The text between these tags will...
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Mike
ironmike@...
Aug 12, 2002 5:31 pm
"<.NOBR>string of words and/or characters</NOBR>: forces the words and/or characters between the tags not to break, even at the end of a line, but rather to...
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Adam Weston
adam_weston@...
Aug 12, 2002 5:37 pm
Fay, try – or — I think the browser will not break at one of those characters. a list of these can be found at: ...
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Mike
ironmike@...
Aug 12, 2002 6:30 pm
Correct tag, John, but to make <.NOBR> work _for sure_ with a hyphen the entire {word-hyphen-word} unit probably should be included between the tags, not...
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john041650
Aug 12, 2002 6:37 pm
Ahh, you are right of course Mike, a single character between those <nobr></nobr> tags wouldn't be very effective would it? I knew I should have thought a...
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Paul Lucas
pwlucas@...
Aug 12, 2002 7:00 pm
I have noticed that some posts in this thread recommend using the <nobr></nobr> tags while others refer to <.NOBR></NOBR> instead. I have used the...
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Fay
feigh@...
Aug 13, 2002 2:19 am
Thank you, everyone. I can now write e-mail instead of settling for email! Did you know that — doesn't work in NS4? It reads on the page as — For...
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Mike
ironmike@...
Aug 13, 2002 6:35 am
When you see a <.tag> listing on a newslist it is because some newsreaders attempt to render HTML tags as if they were part of the source code for the message...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Aug 13, 2002 8:33 am
Hi Fay and others, ... Me too. Nothing like upper case in email. :-) In fact NOBR was never part of any specification but has been around for ever and is...
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Ron Woodall
nor@...
Aug 13, 2002 12:30 pm
Hi Fay: ... Actually, use – (endash, nutt) and — (emdash, mutt) rather than —. "151" is part of the reserved control sequence under ISO 8859-1....
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Ron Woodall
nor@...
Aug 13, 2002 12:30 pm
Hi Fay and others: ... The <.NOBR> trick is included in the Compendium's coding notes. NOBR was one of the original elements pre-WWW standards. We used to just...
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Fay
feigh@...
Aug 13, 2002 1:51 pm
Thank you. I'll remember. It's a shame that I have about a million m dashes through my pages, all done with the — thingy! I'll have to let them stand for...
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Paul Lucas
pwlucas@...
Aug 13, 2002 3:51 pm
One thing to remember about the <nobr></nobr> tag is that even though it currently seems to work in most browsers because it is not a part of any standard it...
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Scott Fordin
sfordin2
Aug 13, 2002 6:40 pm
IMHO, you really do want to stick to the standard set of W3-approved HTML tags for whatever version of HTML you're coding to. Avoid browser-specific extensions...
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Bruce Somers
bruce.somers@...
Aug 13, 2002 8:57 pm
... Not really. A "non-breaking hyphen" (not meaning a particularly robust hyphen, an unbreakable one, but one which will not allow text to be broken at a...
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Fay
feigh@...
Aug 14, 2002 2:08 am
I think I have my site working properly now, but if anyone has time to look and point out things I've forgotten or done incorrectly I'd be grateful. Fay ...
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Alec Burgess
alecb3ca
Aug 14, 2002 3:35 am
... would not want ... the same data ... inapplicable. ... <.nobr>Nielsen-Stokeby</nobr> xxxx . ... processing ... hyphen as a companion ... Not speaking about...
