From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,61983e5ee34cd0a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-25 21:23:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!cox.net!p01!news2.central.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D928BE8.3030708@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [ARTICLE] Introducing the Ada programming language References: <3D9236F0.6DE14A70@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 04:23:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.central.cox.net 1033014185 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:23:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:23:05 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29344 Date: 2002-09-26T04:23:05+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > CodeMage wrote: >>If you are interested .... >>http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/goto.php?url=IntroducingAda > > Forward this to the webmaster rather than the author. > > On Netscape 4.79, the nav sidebar sits on top of the article text. > > On Internet Explorer 6.0, the window is solid white--no text. It looks pretty nice on my Mozilla-Win2k setup. Rather than insist that things look great on my setup, I generally run pages with odd-looking output through the HTML validator. If there is an HTML error, I complain about the error(s) (along with the weirdness I see in my setup). If there isn't a error, then (aside from possible pathalogical style settings) I can assume the problem is with my browser. In this case, a run with http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crystalcode.com%2Fcodemage%2FMainMenu%2FCoding%2FAda%2FIntroducingAda.php&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline shows that this page is indeed invalid HTML. It doesn't even have a doctype tag, so the validator can't even begin to process it. If I guess that the author was shooting for HTML 4.01 transitional (generally the wisest choice for folk who don't even know about doctype tags), I get 150 errors. So this page does indeed appear to have big problems, and I would not be at all suprised to find that it renders quite differently on different brower/OS combos (depending on each brower's extension support and error recovery mechanisims, and perhaps lunar cycle).