On 26 Jul, cj <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
>    Bernard Boase <[email protected]> wrote:

>> The whole page looks pretty trad HTML with no use of CSS. So my
>> question is how come Netsurf displays the two identical versions
>> (A) and (B) differently? And indeed if I save out the correctly
>> displayed (B) version and load the file back into Netsurf the
>> problem reappears.

> Are the versions identical? From the information you have given,
> opening the html attachment loads the version on disc from the email,
> whereas presumably clicking on the url in the text portion loads the
> page from a remote site.

Correct.

> Have you actually compared the two versions to check they are
> identical? The remote site version may be referencing something else
> which a locally saved page cannot (you are doing a full save?).

Well, I compared them only *after* they had been displayed by Netsurf 
(when !Diff said they were identical), so perhaps there are 
differences between what's on the BBC website and what Netsurf outputs 
when I then save it out.

To test this, I loaded the page via URL into Google Chrome and did 
ctrl-U to get what it thinks is the source code, whereupon I find the 
more usual "’" character (as seen in a RISC OS editor) for apostrophe 
which Netsurf correctly shows as a closing quote.

So I am left not knowing where either "’" or "’" come from: original 
site or translation by one or other browser? My suspicion is that 
Netsurf started to insert "’" etc. after the site's change of meta 
data. Yet other browsers aren't affected and the reason is unclear.

-- 
Bernard

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