posted by [identity profile] eviltomble.livejournal.com at 08:46am on 2006-12-17
Hmm, looking again whilst actually awake, I note that yes, Firehamster has syntax highlighting in its source viewer (Dillo doesn't, but I won't fault it for that), and yes, lots of the comments seem to be very confusing to it. Where it considers them to stop and start seems entirely arbitrary! I don't think the extra [A] tag would make much difference to that.
OTOH I did wonder about the peculiar PICS tag at the top, which seems to have a \ instead of an opening " in it; that might upset things a tad. I had to look up the PICS label format in case that was how they were meant to look, but no, it is clearly a typo. I presume the SS~0000 otoh is correct, it looks vaguely like the sort of thing they use *shrug*

And in answer to your other questions which I missed last night due to very minimal reading comprehension,
-No, I don't see Ashiko and Cornamuse with firefox, and the page source shows those commented out (amongst numerous others)
-Yes, only parts of Bodhran and Krumhorn appear, sat between other entries; same parts are those which shown uncommented according to the source highlighter
-Firefox also shows a couple other entries missing, such as Bombard and Bouzouki (which I think was implied by your description of where Krumhorn appeared)
-Dillo shows the whole page fine AFAICT, in case I wasn't clear about that.

Having said all that, I tried editing a copy of your page to fix the extra A tag and the PICS label, and viewing my copy through Firehamster (sorry if you get dubious referrers in your server logs, I didn't change the image URLs in it). Sure enough.... my changes made no difference whatsoever to it. So in the name of empirical evidence, I investigated the other commenters' theory that it was down to --s in the comments via:

sed -e 's/-\{3,\}/==/g' inst.html >inst_decom.html

Yep, they're right, it fixes it perfectly AFAICT. Chalk one up for evidence-based science over "common sense" and "Well it's obvious that it must be that" reasoning :D Hmm, now I look, I see that Acroyear actually tried it himself too, so I guess that wasn't quite so helpful after all, never mind :) Maybe we can say that means it's a repeatable experiment ;)
(Incidentally, anybody know how to make SED convert the exact number of matched characters, other than using the y// type operators, which aren't so selective?)

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