Ok, so why does the accepted language change? Is there something which
can be done to correct the parser without having to activate a link?

On 10/13/05, Alfred Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You are wrong. All HTML pages are displayed by a hosted IE control.
>
> - Alfred
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Tucker
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:15 PM To:
> hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Motd Srcoll Bars
>
> > Yeah, always reference the original motd.txt file for advice. There is
> > a charecter limit, but I dont remember what it is, I'm sure somone
> > will advise if necessary.
> >
> > This is one thing I really can't fathom though. Source will happily
> > start up an IE object and embed it into that screen /AFTER/ you have
> > moved off the first page, but prior to that, some borked parser/render
> > is running. Just what exactly is the language that this parser
> > accepts? I've managed to make at least 20 to 30 different parsing
> > failures that are all legal HTML 3.02, 4, XHTML. Don't get me wrong,
> > but it seems some coder got paid to write a (crap) HTML parser and
> > renderer for no good reason than to save a little memory IF and only
> > if the user doesn't click on a link. I am further upset to realise
> > that the IE object instanciated seems to be persistent after clicking
> > OK too, which seems a waste of ram, particularly for low end systems.
> >
> > I'd be far more happy to have either a full blown IE object every
> > time, or a less capable mini-browser throughout, rather than this
> > apparent cludge of two different systems.
> >
> > I could be wrong about whats going on, but then there are some even
> > worse problems afoot, like why it breaks at all...
> >
> > On 10/12/05, scott brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > --
> > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > > Have things changed with the MOTD? I use to just point the motd to
> > > my
> > > website, that dosn't work anymore it just shows up as a link. It
> > > seems that
> > > now I have to use head tags like this:
> > >  <head>
> > > <title>HL2MP MOTD</title>
> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> > > charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="Refresh"
> > > content="0;url=http://www.mysite.com/index.htm";> </head>
> > >
> > > It works this way but I get some very nasty, ugly purple
> > > checkerboards "missing texture image" for the scroll bars. I can
> > > handle the code for the
> > > redirect but can any point me in the right direction on how to fix
> > > the
> > > scroll bars?
> > >  Thanks,
> > > Scott
> > > --
> > >
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