developing apps with ocaml exercices web pages

developing apps with ocaml exercices web pages

[Radu Grigore]

The web pages with exercises in "Developing applications with OCaml"
are unreadable with mozilla/firefox (i guess that the "layer"
attribute "visibility" is ignored). Maybe there is a quick fix? I'd
rather have the solutions always visible (i.e. remove all related
javascript).

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 radu
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Re: [Caml-list] developing apps with ocaml exercices web pages

[Robert Roessler]

Radu Grigore wrote:

> The web pages with exercises in "Developing applications with OCaml"
> are unreadable with mozilla/firefox (i guess that the "layer"
> attribute "visibility" is ignored). Maybe there is a quick fix? I'd
> rather have the solutions always visible (i.e. remove all related
> javascript).

Actually, according to the W3C markup and CSS validators, the Exercise 
pages (and stylesheets) are... compliance-challenged. :)

And it isn't all about the "layer" element, although the problems 
using caused by using this Netscape-only NON-standard element do 
figure prominently into the list of [W3C] sins.

Quick-fix-wise, forcing the rendering into "quirks" mode didn't really 
help... unfortunately, this is yet one more example of pages for which 
one keeps IE around - IE6 handles the pages fine, although I don't 
know if that is an option for you or not...

Regards,
-- 
Robert Roessler
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Re: [Caml-list] developing apps with ocaml exercices web pages

[Matt Gushee]

Robert Roessler wrote:

>> The web pages with exercises in "Developing applications with OCaml"
>> are unreadable with mozilla/firefox (i guess that the "layer"
>> attribute "visibility" is ignored). Maybe there is a quick fix? I'd
>> rather have the solutions always visible (i.e. remove all related
>> javascript).
> 
> Actually, according to the W3C markup and CSS validators, the Exercise 
> pages (and stylesheets) are... compliance-challenged. :)
> 
> And it isn't all about the "layer" element,

I don't doubt you're right. Nonetheless, I did get the pages to display 
fine in Gecko-based browsers by simply removing all the <layer> tags.

--
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA

Re: [Caml-list] developing apps with ocaml exercices web pages

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:25:17PM +0200, Radu Grigore wrote:
> The web pages with exercises in "Developing applications with OCaml"
> are unreadable with mozilla/firefox (i guess that the "layer"
> attribute "visibility" is ignored). Maybe there is a quick fix? I'd
> rather have the solutions always visible (i.e. remove all related
> javascript).

I while ago I patched the debian package of the o'reilly book to avoid
exercises texts and solution be layered one on top of the other (which
made both exercises and solutions unreadeable).

This is the relevant part of the package changelog:

  ocaml-book (1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
  ...
  * {fr,en}/html/videoc.js
    - hacked JavaScript's {open,close}PopUp so that they output <div>
      and </div> tags around exercises' solutions. This avoid pop up
      mass on mozilla-like browsers. Solutions aren't popped up on
      request but at least they are available and exercises aren't
      hidden behind them (Closes: Bug#180799, Bug#185266)
  ...

You may have a look at the debian package and see if it fixes your
problem.

Cheers.

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