On 16 February 2010 07:25, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:54 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> > wrote: >> On 16 February 2010 06:31, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> To Dana -- you might want to try Firefox if possible -- that's what us >>> dev's use the most, so it is the most reliable for using the notebook. >>> Just to emphasize this, note that I think right now everybody who >>> has done much work on the notebook in the last few months is using >>> Linux, and Safari isn't available on Linux, so Firefox as a notebook >>> client tends to be more well tested. >>> >>> -- William >> >> It might help if the notebook produced valid HTML. The last time I >> checked, with the online W3C validator >> >> http://validator.w3.org/ >> >> the notebook was not producing clean HTML file. There are several >> browers in semi-common use now >> >> * Internet Explorer >> * Firefox >> * Safari >> * Google Chrome >> >> By producing valid HTML, the notebook should work with any of them. > > I'm guessing you haven't done much AJAX programming. The notebook > involves many thousands of lines of Javascript (much in third party > libraries like jsmath, jquery, TinyMCE, etc.). There is much more > going on than just HTML.
But the browser does not see what generates the code - only that the document claims to be HTML 4.01 strict, but it is not. > Having the HTML that the notebook server generators be valid would be > nice. However, doing so isn't going to ensure that "the notebook > should work with any of them". I wish it were so simple. > > -- William But invalid web pages are quite likely to cause different behaviour with different browsers, which can not be a good thing given there at least 4 browsers in common use today. dave -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
