Re: Some comments on Amaya 1.3a.

David J Woolley wrote:
> 
> > This is a test of greek.
> > http://www.neta.com/~cherry/greek.html
> 
> There is no Greek in that HTML it is all in Roman letters but shown
> with rather strange shapes.  It is an example of the misuse of
> fonts.
> 
> Incidentally, even the text only browser Lynx will attempt to render
> Greek as best it can if done properly.  α displays as o acute
> and ω as w, in code page 437.  Yours just displays as:
> 
>    [1]TEX  source
> 
>    a A Alpha b B Beta g G Gamma d D Delta e E Epsilon z Z Zeta h H Eta q
>    Q Theta
> 
>    i I Iota k K Kappa l L Lambda m M Mu n N Nu x X Xi o O Omicron p P Pi
> 
>    r P Rho s S Sigma t T Tau u Y Upsilon f F Phi c X Chi y Y Psi w W
>    Omega
>      _________________________________________________________________
> 
> This is the same thing done properly (showing the rendering would require
> GIFs, but Lynx does a fair job of approximating this and IE4 gets it
> perfect).  Unfortunately NS 4.05 doesn't understand these entities:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
>            "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"><HTML>
> 
> <p>
> &alpha; &Alpha; Alpha
> &beta; &Beta; Beta
> &gamma; &Gamma; Gamma
> &delta; &Delta; Delta
> &epsilon; &Epsilon; Epsilon
> &zeta; &Zeta; Zeta
> &eta; &Eta; Eta
> &theta; &Theta; Theta
> 
> <p>
> &iota; &Iota; Iota
> &kappa; &Kappa; Kappa
> &lambda; &Lambda; Lambda
> &mu; &Mu; Mu
> &nu; &Nu; Nu
> &xi; &Xi; Xi
> &omicron; &Omicron; Omicron
> &pi; &Pi; Pi
> 
> <p>
> &rho; &Rho; Rho
> &sigma; &Sigma; Sigma
> &tau; &Tau; Tau
> &upsilon; &Upsilon; Upsilon
> &phi; &Phi; Phi
> &chi; &Chi; Chi
> &psi; &Psi; Psi
> &omega; &Omega; Omega
> 
> </HTML>
I sent this to the W3C validation service and your HTML is not valid.
The results are attached.
Jim FitzSimons
Mailto:cherry@neta.ocm

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Received on Tuesday, 10 November 1998 16:52:13 UTC