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Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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lugnet.publish
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Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:26:57 GMT
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 21:10:28 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following
profundities...
> Richard Dee wrote:
> > > p.s. Tip: Always (always, always :-) test web pages after uploading them
> > > and before telling people to look there. The SRC attribute of your <IMG>
> > > tag is wrong -- it says:
> > >
> > > <IMG SRC="G:/images/legoegg.jpg" WIDTH=583 HEIGHT=601>
> > >
> > > which causes a broken image link because the browser tries to load
> > >
> > > http://freespace.virgin.net/richard.dee/G:/images/legoegg.jpg
> > >
> > > which doesn't exist.
> >
> > I did test it! And it loaded it just fine! (OF COURSE IT DID!,
> > as it looked on my hard drive!)
> > Anyway, I have corrected it. Please accept my apologies for
> > any inconvenience.
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> My apologies then for concluding that you didn't test it! :)
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> I'm curious, what web browser did you use to test it... I thought
> SRC="file:///...etc..." was necessary to include local files...
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> --Todd
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> [followups set to lugnet.publish]
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It was IE4. I had loaded it locally before uploading to make
sure it looked passable, and that the side-frame link had
worked. I then uploaded, checked from the site. I usually
make sure that I remove hard-drive references when they
sneak in there, but was in a hurry to get it up and published.
Lesson learned!
As regards to the src=etc. above, don't know enough about HTML
to comment, sorry.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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| (...) There y'are then. The curious abomination that is IE4, being explorer as well as a browser, needs to accept non-URLs in the location box. And beacause of the directories in HTML code, it needs them there too. G:\etc. is not a URL, as (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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| NS Comm 4 or 4.5 has the same behaviour. If you're relative pathing and you started on your HD, you can navigate all over it, no worries. Good for testing... BUT! This will bite you if you're not careful. But relative paths are better if you can use (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) My apologies then for concluding that you didn't test it! :) I'm curious, what web browser did you use to test it... I thought SRC="file:///...etc..." was necessary to include local files... --Todd [followups set to lugnet.publish] (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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