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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
>>
>