I love it when Linux blanks my screen 168 plus 156

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:10:37 -0400

Galeon is virtually identical to Mozzie, Epiphany, or Firefox, as far as the main engine is concerned. I can't say I've had much trouble with any of them, except for perhaps the MSN rightclick issue, which seems to me highly artificial; someone got cute there.

Konqueror is being extremely stupid. For starters it's lost a character (-002023), which is a triangle, specified in my CSS2 style sheet:

div#control p a:before { content: "-002023-0000A0"; }

This is purely stylistic but it's annoying. (This is in version 3.3.2. It's possible it's been fixed.)

Second and far worse: a link with an index.xml does not open properly. It either asks to "save as" (no, I want to *view* it; it's got HTML in it after XSL conversion), or open in another browser (Galeon) for some reason. I suspect a config issue but it's not the brightest of behaviors.

Since I don't use Konqueror on a regular basis I can't say I've paid that much attention to this particular subproblem; there's probably an option somewhere.

It turns out adding "Konqueror" to the top of the Application Preference Order in the text-xml buttociation worked around that problem; the browser now can browse index.xml (and other.xml) links more or less properly.

So that's fixed.

Now buttume a webpage such as test.xml:

Works fine in Konqueror and Epiphany.

Now IE, on the other hand, has a problem if one does not specify an "idenbreasty transform" .XSL (which I've called idenbreasty.xsl in my system):

doctype-public="---W3C--DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional--EN"

While for general applications this is OK (the Webserver is expected to throw general .XML at the browser which transforms it), one has to wonder; Mozilla doesn't really have a problem with displaying webpages without

IE has already converted to the XLink-XPointer protocol but I have my doubts.

It gets worse. If one has stupid.xml:

and displayStupid.xsl:

version="1.0" doctype-public="---W3C--DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict--EN"

none of Mozilla, Konqueror, nor IE do intelligent things.

Can you find the bug? Exactly! The XSL specifies the wrong namespace for HTML....clear as mud to find. However, if one removes the .dtd in xmlns:html in the style sheet, correcting the problem, Epiphany displays it correctly but Konqueror and IE are still broken.

If I remove the 'html:' from every tag in the .XSL (gee, how do I find them again, Wally?) and change 'xmlns:html' to 'xmlns' IE now works; Konqueror is still broken so I suspect an error somewhere else.

But it shouldn't be this hard to develop a proper

And yes, I'm probably doing something stupid. I'm not *that* familiar with all this -- but really, this gets ridiculous. This sort of "tag-centric" development I don't really care for.

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