- From: Jan Nijtmans <Jan.Nijtmans@cmg.nl>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 08:15:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
At first, I would like to mention that Amaya is a nice piece of work. I mainly use it as HTML-editor, because it is guaranteed to produce HTML-4 compilant code. Still I would like to report some problems that I found during the past weeks. I am mainly using version 1.2a on Windows NT 4.0. I checked the mail archive, but I didn't find other reports with the same remarks. * Proxy use on Windows NT4.0 When I add the following line to THOT.INI: HTTP_PROXY=http://........... (our proxy server) Amaya refuses to start. Without this line, Amaya works fine, only I cannot conect to sites outside the domain through the proxy server. With the earlier Amaya 1.2 binary distribution for Windows NT this worked fine. * '>' or '>'; Stand-alone '>' characters in text are left as-is when Amaya saves it to a file. Unfortunately Word 97 treats this as an invalid character when reading HTML. I suggest to follow the HTML 4.0 recommendation, as described in the file charset.html: Authors wishing to put the "<" character in text should use "<" (ASCII decimal 60) to avoid possible confusion with the beginning of a tag (start tag open delimiter). Similarly, authors should use ">" (ASCII decimal 62) in text instead of ">" to avoid problems with older user agents that incorrectly perceive this as the end of a tag (tag close delimiter) when it appears in quoted attribute values. Word 97 is not really 'old', but it has this bug as well. And even worse: it happens everywhere, not only in quoted attribute values. When does Microsoft learn................ :-( * Form editing inside tables. When adding a form element (e.g. <input>) to a page, Amaya checks if this element is within a <form>. If not, Amaya adds the required <form> tags automatically. But in the following example this goes wrong: <form ....> <table ...> <tbody> <tr> <td>cel 1 </td> <tr> <tbody> </table> </form> When trying to place an <input> element into cel 1, a <form> tag pair is added as well. This is undesired because the page already has one. * table border When loading a file containing <table>'s without the border attribute, Amaya automatically changes this to <table border=1>. A document table which orriginally has no border suddenly has. Looking forward to the next version of Amaya, in which those problems are hopefully solved. Thanks for the great work. -- Jan Nijtmans, CMG (Computer Management Group) Arnhem B.V. email: Jan.Nijtmans@wxs.nl (private) Jan.Nijtmans@cmg.nl (work) url: http://home.wxs.nl/~nijtmans/
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