Subject:
|
Re: Announcing new set database
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.database
|
Date:
|
Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:11:22 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
3964 times
|
| |
|
|
Todd Lehman wrote:
>
> In lugnet.admin.database, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> > Looks great!
> >
> > One bug and one suggestion:
> >
> > (1) The bug is that there is a missing range indicator
> > at the top of a listing, e.g. go to
> > http://guide.lugnet.com/set/
> > and follow the quick link to trains.
> > The first screen is OK --- it has
> > "First 20 of 224 Set Matches". But then click on
> > the right arrow for the next page, and it shows
> > "21–40 of 224 Set Matches". I guess there is supposed
> > to be a dash there between the 21 and 40.
>
> Hmm. I see an en-dash there (not a hyphen and not an em-dash but an en-dash).
> That doesn't show up for you? What browser/OS were you viewing with?
>
> It's using entity – there, which is kind of a Microsoft-ism in character
> set terms, but I had previously thought that all browsers honored it anyway,
> and converted it to a hyphen if the en-dash wasn't available. Hmm.
I could have sworn that when I looked at the page
source the first time, it was just "2140", but now
when I look it is "21㫀".
Yes, it doesn't come out on Netscape 3.01 on Solaris
(I know it's old, but our sysadmins always have
"more important" things to do) but I don't expect
anyone to care about such an old version anymore.
Note, it is unrelated to the boldification.
I tried taking out the <B> and </B> and the en-dash
is still missing.
> > (2) Suggestion: Duplicate the left and right arrows
[snip]
(3) Another Suggestion: enable search by multiple
keys at the same time.
I wanted to look at all 1980-1985 train sets
but couldn't figure out how.
I couldn't figure out how to look at only 1980 train sets, either.
Is there a way?
/Eric McC/
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Announcing new set database
|
| (...) Nope, it was always there (I just checked). BTW, are you sure you aren't seeing "21–40" now? There should be a ";" after the "–", otherwise it's grammatically incorrect HTML, and you'd probabaly see "20" followed by a splotch (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Announcing new set database
|
| (...) Hmm. I see an en-dash there (not a hyphen and not an em-dash but an en-dash). That doesn't show up for you? What browser/OS were you viewing with? It's using entity – there, which is kind of a Microsoft-ism in character set terms, but I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
|
74 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
Active threads in Database
|
|
|
|
|
|
