[htdig] Re: [htdig-dev] Stylesheets and Netscape

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

I'm moving this response to the htdig-general list.

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Willy Calderon wrote:

> 1) Do you require the htDig icon/name on the results pages?  I couldn't 
> find anything under the terms and conditions of the licence so I thought I 
> would enquire.

No. Ht://Dig is free software and there are no limitations on use in the
GNU GPL. We certainly appreciate if you include some reference to us, but
it is certainly not required.

> 2) Our website is designed with Dreamweaver and uses style sheets 
> (.css).  When running the search from the main front page, there is no 
> problem with Internet Explorer in pulling up results, but when we tried 
> using Netscape 4.7x versions, we found the following error page:
>... 
> The style sheet is currently in the {COMMON DIR}/styles/main_stylesheet.css 
> and is one of the pages in the start_url/index.txt file.

How do you link to the stylesheet? Remember that the ${COMMON_DIR} is
likely not in your webserver's document root. Also, the results from the 
htsearch CGI will usually come back under a URL like /cgi-bin/htsearch...
so that a relative link to the stylesheet will fail.

If you want to have icons or stylesheets or the like come up correctly in
results, you'll need to put them in a shared directory, e.g. /htdig/* in
your webserver root.

--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/