Hi, Here I quote the email Andreas sent to Rob Malda with regard to Slashdot's HTML (rendering problems). We haven't got an answer, so if you can contact Rob, please do so. I have tried. Currently also with gnu-darwin's maintainer we're trying to contact Slashdot's webmasters with a view to fix it. The problem is that we don't have anything but the generic email address, and surely it collects tons of emails. :( Please, if someone in this list has an inner track to /.'s webmasters, please help us to deliver this email. Cheers Jorge.- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:07:31 +0200 From: Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@informatik.uni-bremen.de> To: malda@slashdot.org Subject: Slashdot's HTML fix Hello Rob, I (and many others) have some problems reading http://slashdot.org/ with dillo (http://www.dillo.org). It was ok for years but since some weeks the page is almost completely unreadable. Screenshot: http://users.auriga.wearlab.de/~andi/slash2.png Seeing so much black is really depressing ;-) tidy (a html cleanup program from the w3c) shows lots of warnings. But after tidy has cleaned up the html, dillo shows it almost correctly. After some more investigation, I have found the error which makes the page black: <A HREF="//science.slashdot.org">Science</A></FONT><BR> <font size="1"><B>3 more</ B></FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD ><FONT SIZE="2"> <A HREF="//yro.slashdot.org">YRO</A></FONT></TD></TR> <!-- /TABLE --></TD></TR> ^^^^^^^^^^ There has to be only one </td></tr> pair. So it has to be this way: <A HREF="//science.slashdot.org">Science</A></FONT><BR> <font size="1"><B>3 more</ B></FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD ><FONT SIZE="2"> <A HREF="//yro.slashdot.org">YRO</A></FONT></TD></TR> <!-- /TABLE --> without the extra </td></tr>. I guess after removing that table, you have forgotten the </td></tr>. Screenshot with that correction: http://users.auriga.wearlab.de/~andi/slash1.png It looks quite nice again. I hope you can easily find the html bug in the perl code. You'll make a lot of dillo users happy and the page a bit more W3C compiliant. Greetings Andreas Kemnade PS: Your site http://CmdrTaco.net/ also looks nice with dillo.
Hi, some more information about that topic: Dillo is not the only browser which shows most of the page black. Amaya (The W3C's browser/html editor) has the same problems.
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Andreas Kemnade
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Jorge Arellano Cid