WOT: A favour

[jimbairn]

Can you have a look at this and tell me how it looks on your screen:

http://www.jimbarker.net/Cav.html

Thanks
JimB

[Mitchy]

Looks good Jim :) Gorgeous pic on the right of a very
regal Cav King Charles :) Box on the left is white and
black text on a bright mauve colour. Easy to read
though. Only complaint I have is I can see random
symbols in the text at the beginning of sentences. I
can't reproduce them but one looks like the Euro sign,
one looks like a small c with a line through it. Also,
before the � signs, I see an A with an accent above it.
Don't know if that's you or a glitch with my settings
on Firefox.

[Jr@Ease]

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While Mitchy Pondered, Weak and Weary,
Over Many a Quaint and Curious Forgotten Post, s/he wrote:
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Same here in America. Firefox too.

Example:

"Plus Clip - £20"

John P

[Joan in GB-W]

"Mitchy" <mi...@NOSPAMorien.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Same here. Jim, I wish I could climb into my computer and hug that dog.

Joan

[Pogonip]

Joan in GB-W wrote:
>
> "Mitchy" <mi...@NOSPAMorien.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:7ovq4h...@mid.individual.net...
>> jimbairn wrote:
>>> Can you have a look at this and tell me how it looks on your screen:
>>>
>>> http://www.jimbarker.net/Cav.html
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> JimB
>>
>> Looks good Jim :) Gorgeous pic on the right of a very regal Cav King
>> Charles :) Box on the left is white and black text on a bright mauve
>> colour. Easy to read though. Only complaint I have is I can see
>> random symbols in the text at the beginning of sentences. I can't
>> reproduce them but one looks like the Euro sign, one looks like a

>> small c with a line through it. Also, before the � signs, I see an A

>> with an accent above it. Don't know if that's you or a glitch with my
>> settings on Firefox.
>
> Same here. Jim, I wish I could climb into my computer and hug that dog.
>
> Joan

I see them, too. Not dead people -- this: •Home from home Boarding -
£7 per day

We call this "doggy day-care." My younger son has worked for several
places, here and in Seattle, that offer day-care and boarding. Some
also offer some training. As families grow smaller, pets become more
important, and people want services and are willing to pay.
--
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[db...@booksnbytes.com]

IIRC, those funny characters are UTF-8 encoded unicode characters.
What browser are you using on your system, Jim?

I had that problem on a website and I think I ended up replacing some
of the characters with their ampersand codes. for instance, &copy; for
the copyright symbol.
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[Rik Shepherd]

Mitchy wrote

Same here, on IE (though that mauve is one of my least favourite colours).

Amusingly, or interestingly, when I did a view source/edit and looked at the
source with notepad, then saved it in txt format (as Cav.html so that
browsers will recognize it as a webpage) all the euro/small c funnies
changed themselves to little round bullet point dots, and the accented As
turned into spaces. I'm guessing this is the effect you were after.

I'd suggest opening the html file with notepad, saving it in txt format (but
as a .html), then go through editing the bullet points to &#149; and the �
signs to &pound; Whenever I've seen this happen (ie, done it myself) it's
been a result of copying text from 'clever' word processing programmes into
html. Some characters are recognized differently by different browsers; the
149 code for the bullet and the &pound; for the pound should stop that (the
149 might not totally, though)

Another way of getting the bullets reliably rendered would be to use lists
instead - an unnumbered list will start each line with a bullet.

[ah. Maybe Macs don't have such Notepad and suchlike ways of saving in txt.
I could email a modified version, if you like]

[Lois]

The picture is great. Beautiful dog. I had trouble reading the printing
but I have trouble reading many things. I didn't like the intense violet
background but that is just personal preference. I just thought the color
was a little too strong.

Lois

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[no_one]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:26:05 -0000, "Rik Shepherd"
<RikSh...@houseoftheSCAMPERINGorangemonkey.co.uk> wrote:

>I'd suggest opening the html file with notepad, saving it in txt format (but
>as a .html), then go through editing the bullet points to &#149; and the �
>signs to &pound; Whenever I've seen this happen (ie, done it myself) it's
>been a result of copying text from 'clever' word processing programmes into
>html. Some characters are recognized differently by different browsers; the
>149 code for the bullet and the &pound; for the pound should stop that (the
>149 might not totally, though)

If the &#149; doesn't work, I put the three characters • through a
UTF-8 decoder and it said to use the following code.
&#x2022;

The UTF-8 decoder I used is at
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/unicode-decoder/utf8-decoder

BTW, the validator complained about a bunch of the tags. In XHTML, all
attributes and elements must be all lower-case.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jimbarker.net%2FCav.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654

Sorry if I'm being picky but just wanted to get you headed in the
right direction.

HTH

[Mike Burke]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:37:12 +0000, Mitchy
<mi...@NOSPAMorien.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Same here, Jim.

Mique

[Wes Struebing]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:37:12 +0000, Mitchy
<mi...@NOSPAMorien.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Looks like tags aren't defined quite right. Or "special characters."

The mauve is a bit dark, but not too bad, actually. As pointed out,
it is easily readable.

Oh, and the pooch is gorgeous!
--

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and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples,
promising liberty and justice for all.
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[Annie C]

>
> "jimbairn" <j...@jimbarker.net> wrote in message
> news:XhyWm.16362$Ym4....@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>> Can you have a look at this and tell me how it looks on your screen:
>>
>> http://www.jimbarker.net/Cav.html
>>
>> Thanks
>> JimB

I see the symbols too, using Firefox.
Don't think the magenta color is bad, but it it a bit bright.
Maybe more toward the violet tone would be less harsh.

Lovely pup there..

Annie

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2009-12-17, jimbairn wrote:
> Can you have a look at this and tell me how it looks on your screen:
>
> http://www.jimbarker.net/Cav.html

<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/cavalier.jpg>

There are 6 errors in the XHTML.

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[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2009-12-17, jimbairn wrote:
> Can you have a look at this and tell me how it looks on your screen:
>
> http://www.jimbarker.net/Cav.html

Try this: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/Cav.html>

[Bud]

>> "jimbairn" wrote in message

>>> Can you have a look at this and tell me how it looks on your screen:
>>>
>>> http://www.jimbarker.net/Cav.html
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> JimB

Didn't see this post until today ...

Need a different background or use white letters, and bigger. What does £10
stand for? I get the £10 but not the Â.
--
Bud