- From: Kragen Javier Sittler <kragen@gentle.dyn.ml.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Vincent QUINT <Vincent.Quint@imag.fr>
- cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Vincent QUINT wrote: > > *** Errors in http://www.lesstif.org/: > > line 23, char 96: Missing semicolon > > This message tells you that the HTML file you have loaded contains an error. > Line 23 in this file is: > > LessTif is the <a href="http://www.hungry.com">Hungry Programmers</a>' version > of OSF/Motif®. > > entity ® should be terminated by a semicolon This I understood -- although it was somewhat difficult to diagnose, given that Amaya gave me no apparent way to see the raw HTML, let alone numbered lines. I had originally deleted that error message, but I thought it might be helpful in discovering what, exactly, caused the Thot tool kit errors. > > via the "create links" hotlink once, but I can't reproduce it there, > > either. > > I can't reproduce it either... Have you ever had it happen? > > ... and there are numerous miscellaneous quibbles about usability which > > probably aren't important, unless you intend people to use the browser. > > If you have time to report on these quibbles, the Amaya team would be > glad to consider how to improve usability. - My backspace key generates the keysym Delete. There doesn't seem to be any other way to delete the character to the left, such as Control-H. - Most control-characters insert the printable-ascii version. Control-K inserts a 'k'. As a result, I use the mouse even for basic editing operations, such as deleting the entire contents of a field. - There doesn't seem to be a way to view the raw HTML. If there is, it's certainly not apparent, and it should be. - When Amaya is fed a text file, it pretends that it's HTML, even if given text/plain as the MIME type. Transforming text to HTML for rendering is not difficult. - Double-clicking on the language SELECT on http://altavista.digital.com/ yields a two-column menu, whose second column has entries like the following: ? . B%s # HTML map link %d ?%d,%d (I suspect this is a genuine bug, not just a quibble.) - It's the slowest browser I've ever seen, when it comes to inline images. It reminds me of when Mosaic first implemented forms, and it was a bad idea to scroll less than a page at a time. Loading http://gentle.dyn.ml.org/~kragen/ over a loopback interface takes more than ten seconds on my 5x86/133. This file contains six embedded <img>s repeated many times, for a grand total of 1424 bytes of images. - The input fields are focus-follows-mouse, which means a) you can't use keyboard shortcuts to get from one field to another; b) you have to be careful not to joggle the mouse when you're typing, since those fields are too small. - And about keyboard shortcuts. What keyboard shortcuts? I have to use the mouse to navigate everything. - Hitting <Return> in the only text field on a form doesn't submit it, the way it does in Netscape. Perhaps this is really a preference issue. - Double-clicking to follow hotlinks is a pain in the butt. > > I haven't tried the editor functionality. ... but I'll try it soon. I hope this doesn't sound too critical. I know a browser this nice is a major project, and I'm quite impressed. But little things tended to bother me. Kragen
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