RE: Loading *.htm documents

From: Sanity in Anarchy (sanity@dog.com)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 15:32:06 EST

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    I can't speak for AbiWord, but although html is supposed to be a "universal
    language", it's nowhere close. Until such time as a single browser
    (preferably Mozilla or Opera) is widely enough accepted that there truly is a
    universal standard for html, it's nearly impossible and a hell of a job when
    it's possible to make a page that behaves exactly the same on both Internet
    Explorer and Netscape Navigator. That's not to mention such obscure browsers
    as AOL's.

    Do this: Make an html page (or ask someone fluent in html to do it for you)
    that uses the <layer> tag constantly, along with JavaScript and CSS, if
    possible. Then, open it on Netscape, Internet Explorer, StarOffice, and Lynx.

    I can guarentee you, it will look different on each one.

    So what is AbiWord to do? When a browser comes across a tag it doesn't
    understand, it simply ignores it. Abominably bad code works on even the worst
    of browsers, assuming it doesn't use browser-specific tags. But AbiWord
    apparently gives up when it doesn't understand something.

    I could be wrong. It could be a bug in AbiWord that keeps it from loading ANY
    html pages, but I'm almost positive that even if it could, it's not really a
    good idea.

    How big is the page? When I need to make an AbiWord document out of an html
    page, I open it in a browser, select all the text and copy it, and, depending
    on my needs, either paste directly to AbiWord or right-click (in AbiWord) and
    hit "paste unformatted". Both ways will probalby leave you without much
    formatting to do, unless it's a very complex web page (images, links, etc.)
    but it usually works for my purposes.

    >===== Original Message From Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler@earthlink.net> =====
    >According to my experience,the current abiword won't load .htm
    >documents. I asked it to load two *.htm documents and it stated that
    >both are "bogus". I had no trouble loading them into and editing them
    >in the word processor of Star Office 5.2.
    >
    >dj tuchler
    >
    >
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