Re: Amaya 3.1 (Win95) issues

Hi Ulrich,

Your form doesn't work with Amaya because according to the HTML 4.01 
recommendation
the mandatory attribute action is missing (see section 17.3 The FORM element of
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html)


> On 3 May 00, at 16:41, Irene VATTON wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > On 3 May 00, at 8:41, John Russell wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > > I think it is more the lack of resources than the lack of will....
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > Think of Amaya project as a 'work in progress' of a senior student
> > > >     and you are the mentor ,  pointing out flaws to be corrected....
> > > >   but dont mistake it for a production tool .......
> > > 
> > > That's why I did not mention the inablility to use form submit 
> > > buttons at all....
> > 
> > The submit button works when the document is valid.
> > Could you check the validity of the document.
> 
> According to Tidy, only the summary attribute for the table is missing. 
> Here's the source (CGI output):
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>[bugCGI-5.2] Anmeldung</TITLE>
> <LINK REV=MADE HREF="mailto:Ulrich.Windl%40rz.uni-regensburg.de">
> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"><!--
> .help {font-size: 0.9em; font-family: sans-serif}
> .sig {font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em}
> .label {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bolder; background: #ffffcc}
> .const {background: #ffcc33}
> .nav {font-size: 0.9em; font-family: sans-serif; background: #99cccc}
> .i-c {color: #00cc33} /* issue closed */
> .i-n {background: #ffff99} /* issue new */
> .i-e {background: #ff6699} /* issue expired */
> .p-h {font-weight: bolder; font-style: italic} /* priorities */
> .p-m {font-style: italic}
> .p-l {}
> --></STYLE>
> </HEAD><BODY><H1>Bitte Anmelden</H1>
> <P><STRONG>Achtung: Die Verbindung ist unsicher und kann abgehört 
> werden!</STRONG></P>
> <P>Versuchen Sie, ob der Server eine <A 
> HREF="https://kgate/perl/bugCGI.pl">sichere Verbindung</A> unterstützt.</P><P 
> CLASS="help">Sie müssen sich anmelden, damit Sie arbeiten können. Bei der 
> Anmeldung wird zwischen Groß- und Kleinbuchstaben unterschieden.</P><FORM 
> METHOD="POST"  ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
> <TABLE><CAPTION>Anmeldeinformation</CAPTION>
> <TR><TD><STRONG>Benutzer</STRONG></TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="User"  
> SIZE=16 MAXLENGTH=16></TD></TR>
> <TR><TD><STRONG>Kennwort</STRONG></TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE="password" 
> NAME="Password"  SIZE=16 MAXLENGTH=16></TD></TR>
> </TABLE>
> <P><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="..Action" VALUE="Anmelden"></P>
> </FORM><P CLASS="sig"><IMG SRC="/icons/pinguman.png" ALT="Supercharged 
> Penguin"> 4.05.2000 08:10:11 - Copyright (c) 1998, 2000 by Ulrich Windl</P>
> </BODY></HTML>
> 
> The Button "Anmelden" does not work. In addition, when changing from editor 
> mode to browser mode, the button shrinks in size, making the text label stick 
> out...
> 
> Regards,
> Ulrich
> 

-- 
     Irene.

Received on Thursday, 4 May 2000 04:05:34 UTC