Daynote ,Svenson

MM-vii     Friday

2000-01-07

Gray, cloudy and moist. Sums up this morning. I did not rain and, in the afternoon the clouds cleared away and it even became sunny and nice. If we now get about 10 degrees less (currently 6°C) it would really be enjoyable.

Dimitri has finished the II (invoice-address related info) adaptation. Well he did the file change, the conversion and maintenance programs and the OMSI-1 part. He started on the DR adaptation. This is almost the same so things should go fast and smooth. I have to adapt the OMSI-3 and GA programs. I did three programs today. Adaptation and testing.

After the 15th of January Tom is going to tear down his site for a few weeks. When he gets his F50 up and running he will start serving his site from there. Now Tom is a real daynoter, heck, he actually started the daynotes.com site, so I am not convinced that he will actually be able to keep his head down. He can of course post via any other daynote member, I guess all of us would be honored to post anything he asks . Or he can use the Wiki wiki server off Bo's site for the occasional note. Hey, he could even (at great cost) hire a few KB from Leah's site .
Of course he remains on the back channel.

I cleaned up the HTML code for a small site over the last few days. It is about 25 pages, prepared with FrontPage. Most of the pages looked reasonable, OK lots of unnecessary white space and a lot of senseless indentations in the code (a bit like the pages on the dayotes.com site) but nothing difficult. There were however a few pages that were a real mess. Of course if they had been clean I wouldn't have had anything to do. The problem was that they only rendered in MSIE 4.0, all other browsers made errors. Basically it was a typical case of a graphical editor being too helpful with presenting wizard and, in the end tripping over its self-generated spaghetti. Maybe using MS Word directly on the HTM file added to the problems. On one page, about the same size as one of my own day-notes I counted almost 60 tables, all in various degrees of nesting. The actual problem was that some tables missed the </gt> tag. The cleanup was complicated by the abundance of <font> setting and <!--msnavigation--> tags. I am throwing out all the things I don't know until the result looks as intended under various browsers.
If I ever do this again I am going to ask money for it. Even if it is for a friend.
I like raw code but this bore more resemblance to a pile of overcooked, regurgitated spaghetti than anything else.

Adios