Re: Mac/Safari question-

[Stan Sanderson]

On Feb 19, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Chris Sawer wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2005, at 22:27, Stan Sanderson wrote:
>
> > OS 10.3.8 and Safari-
> >
> > The Documentation Tips & Tricks (and similar) fail to produce graphic 
> > output. Only "missing graphic" icons (box with question mark) are 
> > shown after each item. Clicking on the box produces the code for the 
> > item.
>
> It's the same for me here (OS X 10.3.8) using Safari or Mac IE. Only 
> Firefox shows the images. It appears to be related to the fact that 
> the source for the web page:
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/input/test/out-www/collated-files.html
>
> has image tags like the following:
>
> <img align="center" valign="center" border="0" src="lily-931951662" 
> alt="[image of music]">
>
> The file lily-931951662.png exists, and is the image as expected. The 
> file lily-931951662 (no extension) also exists, but appears to be a 
> short text file saying merely "image of music". This is the result 
> when trying to fetch the file lily-931951662 using wget, IE or Safari.
>
> I'm not quite sure why or how Firefox shows the images, but this would 
> appear to be a bug in the website, rather than in Safari.
>
> [the 2.4 Tips and Tricks page displays fine in all browsers]
>
> Chris

Chris-

Thank you for confirming my observations.

Camino displays the page correctly in addition to Firefox; perhaps the 
Mozilla-based browsers are more tolerant of deviations from html 
standards. I ran the page through an html checker and it found quite a 
few errors.

Stan