From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-05-07T23:25:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] A question for people with English OS

On 07/05/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On May 7, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Harry Kakueki wrote:
>
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the input.
> >
> > Would you look at this without changing any settings and tell me if
> > you see Japanese or gibberish?
> >
> > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/43471
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Harry
> >
> > http://www.kakueki.com/ruby/list.html
> > A Look into Japanese Ruby List in English
> >
> Japanese. But the page itself is created with bad old HTML with
> capital letters in the elements.
> It contains no DOCTYPE declaration.

Actually I hate they specified small letters for elements and I do not
care about DOCTYPE declarations. XHTML strict is so limited I never
figured out how it could possibly work. It is probably good enough for
such simple pages, but that's not the point I guess.

However, the page probably does also have incorrect colors. It looks
like the background of some parts is specified, but not the body
background nor the text and link color. It renders gray on gray for
me.

> Also the page contains no character set encoding declaration.

It may be sent in the server headers. It probably is because the
encoding is EUC-JP and Firefox would not figure out without a header
somewhere.
It is questionable if server headers or in-page headers are better.
Both have their strengths and limitations.

I have also seen links to that page already. I had no problems except
the colors and the fact it is in language I do not understand ;-)

Thanks

Michal