[Virtualacorn-list] NetSurf on VRPC for Mac

Wed Sep 10 17:09:00 BST 2008

In message <gemini.k6y9zy001ubol04b8.vince at softrock.co.uk>
          Vince M Hudd <vince at softrock.co.uk> wrote:

> Tricia Garner <tricia at orchid-squad.org.uk> wrote:

>> Not quite sure whether this is a question for this list or for the
>> NetSurf one, but since it doesn't happen on the Iyonix I'm trying
>> here first...

>> When I view my web pages in NetSurf on the 'HardDisc' the Style
>> Sheet information is not acted upon e.g. headings and links etc. are
>> not displayed in the colours and styles specified but if I view them
>> on the host server they are displayed correctly. This happens with
>> all versions of NetSurf. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon?

> It might be neither! I suspect this is the same problem I had,
> thinking NetSurf couldn't load "local" stylesheets until John-Mark
> Bell (IIRC) pointed out the mistake I was making.

> It's probably caused by the way you link to your stylesheets - and the
> fact that the path to the file on one system is different to the path
> to the file on the other system.

> For example, in my site, I link to the stylesheets thusly:

>  /skin/stylesheet.css

> - 'skin' being a folder at the toplevel of the site, so that link
> works /wherever/ in the site any given page is. When viewed locally,
> however, the site is a few levels down from the root directory - so
> that link, locally, is broken so the stylesheet isn't loaded. For it
> to work, I'd have to create a directory called 'skin' in my root
> directory and copy the stylesheet there.

> To be sure I'm guessing correctly, though, it would be useful if you
> posted the link you use to your stylesheet, and the path on each
> system to one of your web pages (ie the contents of the URL bars - one
> working, one not).

I get the same problem.

<HEAD>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="table.css">

It works when the files are on the web server, not when viewed from 
disc.

>From disc:
file:///ADFS%3A%3AHardDisc4.%24/CanoeClub/Slalom/WebJames/Site/SatResult.htm

I have now fixed it, by filetyping the css files as CSS - they were 
text.

-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan at adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/