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Index of Subjects Hi, On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Joey Mitchell Comeau wrote: > > It appears that not enough '../'s were used and the "/Policy" directory > > wasn't removed from the path obtained from the referring page. See me previous message. The file was moved to another directory so the path was disrupted. It has now been fixed. > i dislike ../'s I love them. ;-> > > I am also wondering why the background icon and the <font ...> tag is > > used here when the only people to access the welcome page are those > > logged in to CCN with lynx -- or do 'outsiders' also get to see the > > "Featured IP" page as well? > > maybe its for those of us with graphical lynx. :P They are clearly unnecessary for Lynx, however: 1) They do no harm to Lynx ;-> ; and 2) The real reason they are there is that I plan to publicise the Featured IP capability of the Welcome page extensively to our IP's. I want them to be actively submitting suggestions for a featured IP (in fact, I have already received one). Thus I want to be able to point them to the URL independently of it's cycling through the Welcome Page. For those who reach it via graphical browsers, the graphical and typographic fine-tuning is there. > my guess is that old habits die hard, or it was made with frontpage or the > like and they used a template with font and background allready selected. Your guess is wrong. I wrote it from scratch. The truth is that there are more things afoot then may at first seem obvious. > > <body background="../../../Icons/paper.gif"> > > again with the ../'s!! You betchya! You'll see lots of them from me. ;-> Cheers, Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html "We have ... in this country ... far too many captive editors who cannot even be heard to rattle their chains." -- Carl E. Lindstrom _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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