From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2002-01-29T00:48:37+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby Developers Guide

> > From: Horacio L�pez [mailto:vruz@ruby-es.org]
> From: "ara howard" <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Ruby Developers Guide
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> > Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote in message
> news:<Pine.GSO.4.21.0201251028160.1011-100000@godzilla.ce.chalmers.se>...
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> > > http://www.flexruby.com/rdg/
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> > thought you might want to know the TOC link is completely unreadable
> > in netscape 4.78 (linux).  i'll still check out the book though!
> >
> > -a
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> The source code reads like it was saved with Microsoft Word
> "Save as HTML",  which indeed.... is not exactly HTML by
> any standard.

The page validates fine as HTML 4.0, using the W3C validator web page:
http://validator.w3.org/

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> Still, Netscape� Communicator 4.7 (Win32) displays the
> page correctly.
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> If you have Dreamweaver handy, it comes with an option
> named "Clean Word HTML",  (no comments)
> which is very helpful.

There is an Office 2000 add-in available at
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx
that does a better job at exporting Word docs to HTML than the default conversion tool.
(The use of CSS is still likely to confuse some versions of Navigator, though.)


James

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