

| Subject: | Re: Searching archives |
| From: | Harry Hoffman |
| Date: | Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:12:58 -0400 |
Yeah, no closing tags and the start of the comment tag is wrong: It's: <!--- when it should be <!-- (two dashes instead of three) Can the admins fix this? Cheers, Harry On 08/01/2011 02:13 PM, John Meeks wrote: > The issue with the invisible archive page is mal-formed html on the pages. A > comment tag is started but not closed, effectively making the whole page a > non viewable comment. IE ignores this miscoding while other browsers are > more strict. > > This could be easily fixed in whichever file writes the header of these > pages. Here's the bad code: > > <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <!--- img src="/img/eurovan.gif" width=179 > height=130 alt="EuroVan" align=left> <!---img src="/img/vanagon_popped.gif" > width=182 height=130 alt="Vanagon" align=right> > It just needs a --> to close the comment and every browser could search > the archives. > > Personally, I have the entire archive in GMail so I didn't notice the > problem before it was mentioned here. > > John Meeks > '91 Vanagon MV > Northern Michigan > > Vanagon Rescue Squad > www.vanagonauts.com > > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I decided to create a new thread instead of keeping this in the tires >> thread. >> >> Can people report what browser/OS combos work to search the archives? >> >> And, does anyone know why they don't work with certain variations? Is it >> simply a user-agent based check? I guess I'll have a look at the src. >> >> I can't view the archives and I've tried the following combinations: >> >> Linux(Fedora)/Firefox 3.x >> Linux(Fedora)/Chrome 12.x >> >> >> Cheers, >> Harry >> >
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