From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Russ Cox References: <20060127172114.C3B8A1E8C4C@holo.morphisms.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <20060127172114.C3B8A1E8C4C@holo.morphisms.net> Subject: [9fans] complaints about new web site Message-Id: <20060127173805.808461B2168@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:38:05 -0600 Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb5ce6c0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "Russ Cox" writes | | It's probably a very good sign that the only actual complaints we've | gotten about the web site have been about how ugly the HTML | source is. Hopefully that's the biggest problem it has. | | The web site is generated from troff sources by a new program | called htmlroff, which I mentioned in an earlier post and which | will appear on sources once I document it. Representative commands | are: | | htmlroff -mhtml glenda.tr >glenda.html | pic utf.ms | tbl | eqn | htmlroff -ms -mhtml >utf.html | | [more good info] russ, this is pretty^wvery cool. | If the web pages don't look right in some browser, then I'm | happy to accomodate that. Like Opera: | | > Nixing the
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opera may be broken, but it does an okay job of organizing its own windows.
firefox tabs allow me one page at a time, like screens for the web.

if this fix works with other browsers too, it might be nice if it were used.

- erik