Re: Multiboot Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and similar with Grub in openSUSE

On 2011-03-26 22:36, swerdna wrote:

> <span style=“color:#00552A;font-weight:bold;font-size:115%”>Title: HowTo
> Multiboot Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and similar Distros with the openSUSE
> (10.x, 11.x) Grub Bootloader</span><br>
> <span style=“color:#00552A;font-weight:bold;font-size:115%”>List of
> Distros</span>: This HowTo works for Debian and derivatives e.g.
> Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, Xandros, Mepis. Here’s a list: ‘Software
> distributions based on Debian’
> (http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros)<br>

This howto post is unreadable in the NNTP side of the forum. It comes like
code.

Code:

> <span style=“color:#00552A;font-weight:bold;font-size:115%”>Title: HowTo
> Multiboot Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and similar Distros with the openSUSE
> (10.x, 11.x) Grub Bootloader</span><br>
> <span style=“color:#00552A;font-weight:bold;font-size:115%”>List of
> Distros</span>: This HowTo works for Debian and derivatives e.g.
> Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, Xandros, Mepis. Here’s a list: ‘Software
> distributions based on Debian’
> (http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros)<br>


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

You’d have to come on the web browser to view it. It’s html/css based.

On 2011-03-27 22:36, swerdna wrote:
>
> You’d have to come on the web browser to view it. It’s html/css based.

All that should be automatically stripped by the gateway before sending to
the nntp side.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

Oh I see, a bug… Hmm… well IIRC the forum where I posted it is the only forum which allows parsing css and html. And since it’s a locked forum (so only authors of vetted howto-s can post to it.) it’s not likely to be a problem on a continuing basis. The thing to weigh up in this issue is the time required to correct the bug and force the gateway to behave correctly --versus-- the frequency of the events which so far have been only once since the forum began (I think no one else has bothered to write in html).

In that case I would leave the gateway as is.

On 03/28/2011 01:36 AM, swerdna wrote:
>
> (I think no one else has bothered to write in html).

since the entire openSUSE web forums are written in html, i have to
wonder what it is about this one page which caused it to not be
recognized as html and auto-stripped down to text (as are all others
during the http>nttp process)

oh! i see…as far as i can tell this how-to is only page which uses
<* style=*><span> tags (‘span style’ and ‘div style’

apparently the gateway [or whatever normally does it] does not ‘know’
to strip the out the style tags…

or, perhaps the tool used to generate such pages could be set to not
use them…i wonder what tool was used…


DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

DenverD the web forums are written in php – not (x)html.

But yes, the gateway didn’t handle the code tags (i.e. didn’t strip them out). I’ve thought about this. The entire forums are set to not expect any xhtml or css code input via the GUI editors that web clients use. So when some comes their way they think it’s text and let it through.

The page I wrote and posted works fine in the one forum that I have enabled for html/css for web browsers. It’s a read-only forum. There won’t be any more put on that forum by any one else except perhaps ultra-occasionally by me.
There are 950000 posts, only one of which was written in html. An oversight but I’m not planning to rewrite it. Don’t sweat it because it’s a super rare event.

On 03/28/2011 11:06 AM, swerdna wrote:
> DenverD the web forums are written in php – not (x)html.

look at the source code of any page and you will see

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

yes, it is served as php, but it is html.

>
> Don’t sweat it because it’s a super rare event.

i wasn’t sweating…are you?

just tried to figure out what caused the problem…and think i suceeded…


DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

I think you know what I meant. Anyway, adieu for now.