Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

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#1Curt Sampson
cjs@cynic.net

Is it just me, or are the mail list archives still generating HTML
that's missing close table tags, so the pages cannot be viewed on
Linux Netscape 4.78?

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Curt Sampson (#1)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:

Is it just me, or are the mail list archives still generating HTML
that's missing close table tags, so the pages cannot be viewed on
Linux Netscape 4.78?

They're still broken. Marc or Vince, could you do something about that
soon?

regards, tom lane

#3Vince Vielhaber
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In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:

Is it just me, or are the mail list archives still generating HTML
that's missing close table tags, so the pages cannot be viewed on
Linux Netscape 4.78?

They're still broken. Marc or Vince, could you do something about that
soon?

That's a Marc thing.

Vince.
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#4The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

I'll look through the code later on today, thanks for the reminder ...

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

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Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:

Is it just me, or are the mail list archives still generating HTML
that's missing close table tags, so the pages cannot be viewed on
Linux Netscape 4.78?

They're still broken. Marc or Vince, could you do something about that
soon?

regards, tom lane

#5The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#4)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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I'll look through the code later on today, thanks for the reminder ...

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:

Is it just me, or are the mail list archives still generating HTML
that's missing close table tags, so the pages cannot be viewed on
Linux Netscape 4.78?

They're still broken. Marc or Vince, could you do something about that
soon?

regards, tom lane

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#6Tom Lane
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In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#5)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

Individual messages still aren't showing, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

regards, tom lane

#7Curt Sampson
cjs@cynic.net
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#5)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-03/msg00965.php

still doesn't work for me.

It might be worth putting the pages through an HTML validator.

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#8The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Curt Sampson (#7)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Curt Sampson wrote:

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-03/msg00965.php

still doesn't work for me.

It might be worth putting the pages through an HTML validator.

I did, but there are >160 000 pages right now, and some are using the
*old* formatting ... I'm going to have to re-run all the messages through,
it appears :(

#9The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Tom Lane (#6)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

Okay, I just regenerated everything from the raw files ... can you test
the below link and let me know if its *cross fingers* fixed :(

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

Show quoted text

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

Individual messages still aren't showing, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

regards, tom lane

#10Justin Clift
justin@postgresql.org
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#9)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

Hi Marc,

Rats...

Regarding the URL:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

Netscape 4.79 on Windows doesn't like it (blank page). :(

Mozilla 1.1a on Windows is ok with it.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote:

Okay, I just regenerated everything from the raw files ... can you test
the below link and let me know if its *cross fingers* fixed :(

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

Individual messages still aren't showing, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

regards, tom lane

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#11Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Justin Clift (#10)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

Looking at the source of that page, I see an html/head/title followed by
another html/head/title declaration. Also AFAICT there are two open
table tags and only one close table tags, and I don't see a close center
tag for the tag opened after body. If I had to guess, I'd say it's the
missing end table tag that's hoarking up NS4.7. HTH

Robert Treat

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On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 10:25, Justin Clift wrote:

Hi Marc,

Rats...

Regarding the URL:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

Netscape 4.79 on Windows doesn't like it (blank page). :(

Mozilla 1.1a on Windows is ok with it.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote:

Okay, I just regenerated everything from the raw files ... can you test
the below link and let me know if its *cross fingers* fixed :(

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

Individual messages still aren't showing, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

regards, tom lane

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#12Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Justin Clift (#10)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:

Netscape 4.79 on Windows doesn't like it (blank page). :(

Same here. Eyeballing the html source, it still looks like the <table>
environment isn't being closed out.

regards, tom lane

#13Andrew Sullivan
andrew@libertyrms.info
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#9)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:13:01AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Okay, I just regenerated everything from the raw files ... can you test
the below link and let me know if its *cross fingers* fixed :(

Well, the w3c doesn't like it.

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#14Don Isgitt
djisgitt@soundenergy.com
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#9)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

Netscape 4.79 returns blank page, but Opera 6.0 B2 reads it just fine.

Don

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote:

Show quoted text

Okay, I just regenerated everything from the raw files ... can you test
the below link and let me know if its *cross fingers* fixed :(

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

Individual messages still aren't showing, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

regards, tom lane

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#15The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Justin Clift (#10)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

Okay, according to W3C's validator, this URL now appears to come out okay
... I'm once more regenerating them all from the raw files, which
generally takes an hour or two, after which, let me know if there are any
further ones that aren't being displayed properly :(

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Justin Clift wrote:

Show quoted text

Hi Marc,

Rats...

Regarding the URL:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

Netscape 4.79 on Windows doesn't like it (blank page). :(

Mozilla 1.1a on Windows is ok with it.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote:

Okay, I just regenerated everything from the raw files ... can you test
the below link and let me know if its *cross fingers* fixed :(

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

K, I think I got them all ... please test and let me know URL that you
find wrong, so that I can use that one for testing ...

Individual messages still aren't showing, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

regards, tom lane

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#16Curt Sampson
cjs@cynic.net
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#15)
Re: Bad HTML in Mail List Archives

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Justin Clift wrote:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00756.php

Netscape 4.79 on Windows doesn't like it (blank page). :(

Okay, according to W3C's validator, this URL now appears to come out okay
... I'm once more regenerating them all from the raw files, which
generally takes an hour or two, after which, let me know if there are any
further ones that aren't being displayed properly :(

That one is now working fine. Thanks for fixing this!

BTW, for others looking for an alternative to Netscape that's not bloated
as Mozilla is, you might look at the graphical version of links:

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/

cjs
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