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thedarkman
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      04-24-2012

There is some sort of obscure coding error in this file

http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/r...itma_site.html

but I can't find it. Here is the old version - before it was amended


http://web.archive.org/web/201107071...itma_site.html


can anyone tell me what it is? Thanks
 
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thedarkman
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      04-24-2012

>
> Other than the removal of the Wayback Machine header I don't see
> anything very different in the two pages.
>
> --
> Ed Mullenhttp://edmullen.net/
> "Music is essentially useless, as life is." - *George Santayana


Found it! omitted a "
 
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thedarkman
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      04-24-2012
On Apr 24, 8:49*pm, thedarkman <odemgoldenslipp...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> > Other than the removal of the Wayback Machine header I don't see
> > anything very different in the two pages.

>
> > --
> > Ed Mullenhttp://edmullen.net/
> > "Music is essentially useless, as life is." - *George Santayana

>
> Found it! omitted a "


And guess what, now I've corrected it, there are another 20 errors
showing!
 
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty
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      04-24-2012
thedarkman wrote:

> On Apr 24, 8:49Â*pm, thedarkman wrote:


>> Ed Mullen wrote: [attribute restored]
>> > Other than the removal of the Wayback Machine header I don't see
>> > anything very different in the two pages.

>>
>> Found it! omitted a "

>
> And guess what, now I've corrected it, there are another 20 errors
> showing!


Great news! Now you're getting closer to how your pages normally test!

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thedarkman
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      04-25-2012

> That hardly accounts for the differences. *There is a huge amount of
> code ommitted in the copy of the original. *And why did you copy the
> original anyway?
>



I didn't copy the original, I wrote the original. I've been going
through the site, putting in new links to open pages in a new window
and replacing quotes with smart quotes. The former is where the error
crept in.
 
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Jonathan N. Little
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      04-25-2012
thedarkman wrote:
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>> That hardly accounts for the differences. There is a huge amount of
>> code ommitted in the copy of the original. And why did you copy the
>> original anyway?
>>

>
>
> I didn't copy the original, I wrote the original. I've been going
> through the site, putting in new links to open pages in a new window
> and replacing quotes with smart quotes. The former is where the error
> crept in.



Unfortunately with all your "edits" you are still ignoring basic HTML
syntax. Until you address the fundamentals all you be doing is going in
circles. The sad part is HTML syntax is *not that difficult*.

1) Nested elements FILO

2) Some elements REQUIRE closing tags, so simplest to remember is to
close ALL elements except for AREA, BASE, BASEFONT, BR, COL, FRAME, HR,
IMG, INPUT, LINK, META, and PARAM

3) Learn which elements are INLINE and those that are BLOCK. Basically,
inline elements need to be inside at least one block element and inline
elements cannot contain block elements.

Until you do the above, you code will be nothing more than a muddle.

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