On 30 Sep 2008 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:26:14 +0100 > Paul Vigay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When you go to http://www.rfidglobal.org/ NetSurf (build r5462) >> downloads the page but then immediately comes up with a "Parsing the >> document failed" error and all you get is a blank page. >> >> I grabbed it using wget and although the HTML looks reasonable, >> NetSurf is still unable to view the local copy either. >> >> I'll submit a bug report, but wonder if this is a problem with the new >> parser, as NetSurf 1.2 views the site ok. > The page says in an HTML header (rather than an HTTP one) that its > encoding is "gb-2312", which is I believe meant to be "gb2312", and is > a simplified chinese character encoding. That may be the first hurdle. > Additionally, the page contains bytes that do not exist in this > encoding in the first place. However, it does parse as iso-8859-1. > I am not familiar enough with the new parser to say which of these (if > either) is causing the issue, or how to repair the issue - this posting > is informational only :) NetSurf seems to throw up its hands and surrender very easily instead of trying to put something out, even if that means defaulting to ISO-8859-1 or USASCII. The other problem I noticed was that when you get this error you can't shift-drag or ctrl-drag the URL into another browser or an editor. Why not? -- _ |_|. _ Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ |\_||_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: I disclaim everything.
