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?



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