Is it just me? It seems like all of the pages on Taylor's website except the first page are stored on the server as text files with no extensions instead of as .html/.htm files, and consequently, most versions of IE/Netscrape/Mozilla have trouble sorting it all out, and just display the html as text.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Well, I know alot of us Taylor admirers were aware that Taylor has had major difficulty with email over the last 5 days.
I just noticed on her site that she is offering incall for the next couple of days.
Yahoo......count me in!!! Good luck to youse guys.....
Hangin
Yeah, me too Taylor!!!!!
cmeflyhigh
Is it just me? It seems like all of the pages on Taylor's website except the first page are stored on the server as text files with no extensions instead of as .html/.htm files, and consequently, most versions of IE/Netscrape/Mozilla have trouble sorting it all out, and just display the html as text.
Does anyone else have this problem?
OmegaZap,
I am not a computer geek at all, but when I go to Taylor's site: www.TaylorsPlayhouse.com, I have no trouble at all seeing all the pages together with all the updates that she has put on them. I have MIE. I can't figure out why you can't access all the pages easily. PM me if you want to discuss it further.
cme
As Denzel Washington would say in the movie Philadelphia, explain it to me like I'm a 6yr old?????
So true! A lady I used to see would say: "Talk to me like I'm a 5 year old". The techy stuff goes way beyond me too. I just know that when I click on it, it works just like a light switch makes me see things clearly. Without it I just grope around in darkness. Gosh I hate that!!!
cme
Sorry, didn't mean to get too technical...
My thinking was that if you're the kind of person who knows what the problem is and how to solve it, then the description will make sense, and if not, you wouldn't really care either way...
Likewise, you're either having the problem, and it will be immediately obvious to you (it's not subtle) or you're not, and again, you wouldn't really care about the post anyway.
This is similar (but not the same) as the problem Tuzdae's site had a while back... Taylor's web server is telling my browser "This doesn't look like an HTML file, (the langauge used to design web pages) but instead just looks like a plain text file like you'd open with Window's Notbook program with no formatting.
My browser correctly interprets this instruction from the web server (called a MIME type) as meaning it should just display the file on screen as text, rather than rading the file as an HTML page layout and displaying that page.
I have had the same problem. I use Mozilla Firefox for 99% of my surfing. But, Taylor's site looks like text, so I use IE. Some websites use Microsoft proprietary commands. Taylor's site might be one of them. Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox is built based on a different "open" standard that doesn't recognize these commands.
Sorry to all for the techno-speak.
Yes, this is a problem. The files are stored with a .txt extension that most all web servers will send out the mime type of text/plain. The proper behavior for a browser is to display the contents of the file. Internet Explorer seems to ignore the mime type and actualy display the HTML.
Someone should let Taylor, or whoever does her site, know that they should change the file extensions to .html
Interesting that you're not having the problem with IE... I am a bit of a browser expert from a past life and have a ton of browsers at my disposal, including the release versions of IE6, Mozilla, and Firefox, AND the pre-release betas of all 3 of these browsers. All six, including standard IE, display the text files.
(BTW, I'm a beta site for MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 and I'm quite impressed both with the overall improvements in XP and the improvements in IE. The new Internet Explorer is no Firefox, but it is a nice improvement over 6, PM me if anyone's curious about the new features.)
ANYWAY, all of these browsers, generic, current IE6 included, get tripped up by this MIME problem. I tinkered with my IE settings and can get it to display the site OK, I must have some MIME settings that are not the same as the standard release.
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Omega-Zap,
I am playing around with web development, working with dreamweaver, php and mysql. I have heard about differences in browsers and that IE uses some propietary coding that I need to avoid when building a web site. Can you give me a shout and share some insight. I would also appreciate some feedback on a couple of sites I am working on.
Contact me at [email protected]
Papastevie
After many attempts at contacting her yesterday, one email snuck thru. Today I recieve a reply asking what time. I try to reply and my emails (only the ones to her) keep bouncing back. Anyone have any suggestions? Help!!