John and all Several problems are evident when you "View Source" on these pages, any or all of which might upset Internet Explorer's HTML rendering engine. Depending on the version of the MSHTML DLLs on your PC, anything is possible based on whatever service packs, products installed, or security patches which might update it to a newer version.
1. All of the "&" symbols used in the table text - these should be converted to "&" to be valid HTML 2. The line breaks are "<br />" but they should be "<br>" 3. There are some quote-like markings which are actually invalid ASCII codes, e.g. in AD 0616, "Part A: S/N : All serial no's" that is not actually a proper single quote (as found on my keyboard underneath a double-quote or tilde), but instead the byte code is 146 (decimal) or 92 (hexadecimal). You need to use a hexadecimal file editor to notice these. I ran the page through the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML validator service at http://validator.w3.org which gave me some clues about this invisible one. 4. Spaces in URLs for the individual PDF files are probably not a great idea either. Normally a "%20" sequence is used to make it more correct. Blame Microsoft for deciding that long file names with spaces were a good idea to have, even though most core Windows files do not actually use them themselves and are still 8.3 file names ! A lot of these issues probably arise from the table being generated from some legacy PC database or spreadsheet and it has not been checked for strict HTML compliance. The GFA web site is now maintained by Nikki Douglas, and not Nick Gilbert (probably a year or so before the new look-and-feel were adopted), though Marcia at the GFA does some basic maintenance too e.g. uploading membership lists. Nikki has been cc-ed on this message, and will no doubt sort out the e-mail re-direction problem (Nikki look at the following URL for details http://www.mail-archive.com/aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net/msg07158.html ) Regards Jason Armistead On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:05:52 +1100, John Giddy wrote > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:59:35 +1100, you wrote: > > > Just had another thought John. You might have an "OLD" search page > > still in your cache. GFA has changed the site recently. Suggest you > > "Flush your cache" and shut down MIE, then try again. See if that helps. > > > > PC > > Sorry Peter, > I tried clearing all offline files in OE and also cleared the > History. Same result. I wonder if it is something to do with my > ISP's cache ? Don't know how to clear that though, and trying to > get any sense out of the Bigpond Helpdesk (?) is like milking a > rock. I have tried the apocryphal "Ctrl-Refresh" but no difference > in behaviour. > > Just looked at the source for the AD search page again. The link to > the download is there, along with a link to the "Details" script. > Why doesn't my browser show it ????? > Attached is a copy of part of the table of ADs from the page. The > last couple of lines show the two links mentioned. My browser seems > to only see the second link in the table cell. Even more confused > John G. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
