Re: [SL] latex dilemma & blank emails

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One word of advise. Forget about html validation. If a browser doesn't
know when a document starts or ends throw the damn thing in the garbage.
This is my opinion, and I do have a very strong opinion about this gacka.

Netscape, Links, Lynx and even Explorer don't care about most closing tags
and that's the way it should be.  As for the rest of the browsers (what,
maybe 1%), if they want to be purists, go ahead, make my day.

For the character encoding there is a meta tag for it BUT you must
specify one to include it in the header.

Now to the incomplete document. It had nothing to do with "bad" html but
everything to do with the way the attachment was encoded. It just so
happens that braindead Outlook and one other I know off, K-mail (purist I
guess), wouldn't accept a jagged attachment.

To fix this install the upgrade available from the download page.

Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
DWS Systems Inc.     Accounting Software       Fax: 478-5281
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Keith Mastin wrote:

> Validation failed all over the place... even on the original document:
> Warning:       No Character Encoding detected!
> Fatal Error:  no document type declaration; will parse without 
> 	validation
> I could not parse this document, because it uses a public identifier 
> 	that is not in my catalog
> Below is an outline for this document, automatically generated from the
>       heading tags (<H1> through <H6>.)
> 	A level 1 heading is missing!
> 	A level 2 heading is missing!
> 	A level 3 heading is missing!
> 	I N V O I C E
> If this does not look like a real outline, it is likely that the
> 	heading tags are not being used properly. (Headings should 
> 	reflect the logical structure of the document; they should not 
> 	be used simply to add emphasis, or to change the font size.)
> 
> Also, I tried emailing an invoice to a client who uses OE6.0. Here is 
> what he received:
> <head>
>  tlIoetl      <td align=center>hr</td>
>   < i=g>.<d  < i=g>.<d  t    <font size=-3 align=justify>
>     Payment due Upon Receipt of Invoice.
>    Itees o oerueamuns il aru a te at o 240% ermoth   fomdu dteunilpad n 
> ul. tes etrnd resujet o  $ scncr. tnuozi sboae  oBcr fmi cogSveI 
> feosrrue tnmtehp   
> 
> This got really mangled somewhere, whether here or there is still 
> undecided.
> 
> On 12 Apr 2002, klavs klavsen wrote:
> >Subject: Re: [SL] latex dilemma & blank emails
> >
> >On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 08:25, Keith Mastin wrote:
> >> After about 5 hours messing around to make the invoice llok the way I 
> >> want, with continuous testing, I finally came to the conclusion that it 
> >> was NetXcape that wasn't parsing the html properly. They read fine in IE 
> >> and Opera, but are blank in netXcape. How can I test them in lookout if 
> >> I don't use it for email?
> >> 
> >
> >Try validating your HTML - with validator.w3.org - Then you shouldn't
> >have any problems..
> >
> 
> 