Re: [Archive-access-discuss] WERA quirks

[James G. <jg...@si...>]

 > 1) Images *usually* don't seem to be displayed.

Aha, the image thing was my fault; seems the images I was missing were 
on a different domain (and I had restricted my crawl to the single 
domain).   I'll have to do another test, but I think that's explained.

jamesG

James Grahn wrote:
> A few quick comments:
> 
> 1) Images *usually* don't seem to be displayed.   Though I saved images 
> in one of the ARC files I'm using, they do not appear on the page in 
> WERA.   I've also noticed this occurring on the WERA test site 
> http://nwa.nb.no/wera/ when I search for "library" and examine the front 
> page of the library of congress.
> 
> Behavior: The image will appear, only to be replaced by the image's 
> "alt" tag as the page has its links remapped.
> 
> Expected behavior: The image should reappear after the links are 
> remapped (because the image should be in the ARC).
> 
> 2) There are some webpages that throw off the formatting of WERA.   They 
> seem to be primarily textareas with html embedded.
> 
> When indexed, they sometimes throw off the table formatting of WERA and 
> sometimes cause input boxes and submit buttons to appear on the search page.
> 
> Always-valid examples:
> http://cl.cnn.com/ctxtlink/jsp/cnn/cl/1.5/cnn-story-cl.jsp
> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/.element/ssi/misc/2.0/contextual/story.html
> http://www.cnn.com/.element/ssi/sect/1.3/WEATHER/weatherPageBox.html
> http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/
> http://cnn.dyn.cnn.com/intlWeatherBox.html
> 
> 
> Perhaps-not-always-valid examples:
> http://www.cnn.com/.element/ssi/www/breaking_news/1.1/banner.exclude.html
> 
> An example of such offending html:
> <textarea name="breakingNews"><!--breaking news banner-->
> <div id="cnnBNBBreakingNews">
> 	<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
> 		<tr valign="middle">
> 			<td width="181" valign="top"><img 
> src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/ceiling/bnb/breaking_news.gif" 
> alt="" width="181" height="47" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0"></td>
> 			<td class="right"><div id="cnnNarrowBulletinText">Britney Spears 
> files for divorce from her husband Kevin Federline, citing 
> irreconcilable differences. </div></td>
> 		</tr>
> 	</table>
> </div>
> <!--/breaking news banner-->
> </textarea>
> 
> 
> 3) This xml file resulted in an abrupt end of a table in WERA:
> http://edition.cnn.com/.element/img/1.3/swf/pipeline_mainpage/config_intl.xml
> 
> The source for this was a crawl of CNN at a depth of 2 links. 
> Hopefully the examples are revealing.
> 
> jamesG
> 
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