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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: KFM & new koffice website
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-09-15 3:01:51
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> 
> Dawit Alemayehu [adawit@earthlink.net] wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > > I'm working on a new version of the KOffice pages at
> > > http://koffice.kde.org/.  I've got them done, but I'm having some trouble
> > > viewing them with KFM.  It crashes more or less randomly when loading
> > > pages.  Sometimes it does fine, then later I load the same page and it just
> > > dies.
> >
> > Can you please try it with a current version of kfm to see if the problem still
> > occurs.
> 
> Yes, I realized after I sent this that with the pending 1.1.2 release I
> needed to try the latest... hopefully I can tomorrow.

Great.  Do you know what version you used to make the tests ? Just FYI you can
get the version info from Help->About kfm ...

> > Well, I consider the "style=" tag inside the table to be a little be odd
just > > because I do not see its usefullness in this particular case.
> > 
> > line # 25
> >     <td valign=middle align=center rowspan=2 width="100%"
> >       style="background: #ffffff url(pics/all_shot_banner.gif)">&nbsp;</td>
> > 
> > What is the purpose of using CSS in this case ?  On the down side though it
> > prevents kfm and older versions of Navigator from displaying the page as
> > intended.  In fact,  the latest version of Netscape displays exactly the same
> > it would have if you have not used style sheet :
> > 
> >     <td valign=middle align=center rowspan=2 width="100%">
> >       <img src="pics/all_shot_banner.gif">&nbsp;</td>
> 
> No, it isn't the same.  If you use a regular img tag, the size is absolute.
> If you use a background image instead, it is dynamic.  Thus people aren't
> forced to widen their window or scroll just for an image if they have a
> thinner one.  And if they happen to have a very wide window, it'll fill the
> available space, which just looks better.
> 
> It's done using style= instead of just background= because background=
> isn't a part of the HTML 4.0 spec for td tags, and the recent versions of
> the browsers that support background= also support the style sheet method.
> KFM doesn't do either (at least not in the versions I have, I'll check the
> latest ASAP), so I chose the standard-compliant one.

Don't bother.  The current KFM ( well actually the khtmlw library ) does
not support either one.

> > > Another thing -- it only happens when I view the pages remotely.  If I
> > > serve them locally, it doesn't crash at all.
> > 
> > Ummm ... why does this sound familiar ?  Could you please try browsing the
> > site after clearing the cache ...
> 
> I know it still happens after I 'rm ~/.kde* ~/Desktop/ /tmp/k*' ... I
> assume one of those includes the cache. (/tmp/kfm_$UID_cache/, isn't it?)

Right the cache is in the /tmp folder.  Simply doing Options->Cache->Clear
Cache should do the trick as well.

Regards,
Dawit A.

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