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Subject:RE: to the HTML gurus out there From:jknebel -at- ospreyus -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:12:24 -0400
I'd agree with Lee on this one.
However, Arachnophilia is a "careware" product and doesn't cost anything to
obtain. I use it for editing code for simple pages.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Tesdell [mailto:ltesdell -at- eai -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 2:39 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: to the HTML gurus out there
Could it be the period (.)between FILE and NAME?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Hubert" <barbara_hubert -at- epicdata -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 1:05 PM
Subject: to the HTML gurus out there
> I'm revising an HTML front page for our documentation CD in Notepad.
> The page was originally created in Arachnophilia 4.0 (this was the
> personal property of one of our writers and, consequently, left with
> her--hence the Notepad revisions).
>
> The page consists of a top frame and index page. Each component of the
> frame page has links to pdf files.
>
> The problem is that one of the links (the link to the largest document)
> works fine in Netscape, but not at all in Internet Explorer. All the
> other links (coded identically to the defunct link, with the exception
> to the actual file name) work perfectly in both. I've checked
> everything.
>
> Here is a sample of the code, any and all help is appreciated:
>
> <p><a href="FILE.NAME.PDF"><i>FILE NAME</i></a></p>
>
> again, this is the same as all the other links, which work fine in both
> browsers
>
> SOS
> please help
>
>
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