New Fanfic Up!

[Pitseleh]

Yup, there's a problem. Bluetiger's new story, for example, will only show the title, genre and rating, but not the story itself.

With ginamr's story, this is what you see:

Conflict Imminent
By ginamr
Rating: G

Genres:

Keywords:


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Conflict Imminent - Chapter 1
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So, I can't read any of the new fic...

[panyasan]

Pitseleh is right. The only fic with story-text is Asso's story Human Mood. The rest is only [end-if].

[bluetiger]

Same here. I don't get any text for the new stuff except Asso's story.

[Alelou]

This is certainly not an ultimate solution, but in Mozilla Firefox, you CAN see the stories. And since that's John's browser, that's no doubt why he thinks they are successfully posted.

Tres bizarre.

If you're desperate for your fic, you can download Mozilla Firefox free....

[justTripn]

I have Mozzilla Firefox and yet only Asso's story show's up for me. The others are just Titles, author's byline, rating, genre, keywords . . . That's all!

Ann

[kevin]

Same here. I don't get any text for the new stuff except Asso's story.

Whatever is being used to generate the HTML and CSS is creating tons and tons of syntax errors. I'm guessing it's computer generated because, while each page has dozens to hundreds of errors, they are all very similar, like a computer made them. It looks like Firefox and Safari ignore the crap and attempt to display the text but IE just bails out. It also could be the files contain XHTML tags but identify themselves as plain old HTML. I know IE makes some assumptions about what to do when there is no DOCTYPE directive. All versions of XHTML require a DOCTYPE directive and it could be Microsoft built this assumption into IE. Please see Section 3.1 of the XHTML 1.0 spec.

Two tools I use a lot, and I would highly recommend them to any HTML coder, are the World Wide Web Consortium's Markup Validation Service and their CSS Validation Service. While neither can help you much with coding around Microsoft's particular interpretation of the standards, both can at least ensure you've generated syntactically correct HTML and CSS. That's a big step in the direction of getting it right semantically.

Even better, Microsoft's IE8 does a much better job adhering to standards than IE6 and IE7 when the syntax is correct. As IE8 becomes more mainstream, Web coders will get even more benefits from correct markup.

[krn]

what's up with the /' ? I hope it's something that can be fixed (or is it just me?), 'cause it's kinda annoying. Obviously the site is in transition - I was just inquiring.

[Alelou]

I have Mozzilla Firefox and yet only Asso's story show's up for me. The others are just Titles, author's byline, rating, genre, keywords . . . That's all!

Ann

I updated my Firefox recently -- maybe it's a more recent version.

[justTripn]

It looks good now, except the paragraph spacing is three lines long on some stories, which is A-OK!

Thanks to the computer angels/administrators responsible!

Ann

[Vaux]

I can't read any of the chapters posted yesterday.

IE6 shows me i.e. Alelou's Chapter 1-10, but not 11.

Same for all other parts posted March 23rd. Everything prior is visible.


Edit to add: Strangely enough "Imprisoned - Chapter 2 by Mjmeyg - March 24, 2009" is shown without any problems. But everything from yesterday is the way Pitseleh etc. described it on page 68 of this thread.

Edit 2: Very weird. "Imprisoned, Chapter 2" has just vanished.

[Linda]

I just noticed that BlueTiger's story "Is it Because He is Human?" has only the title but no text.

[Asso]

I can't read anything else but my story and Transwarp's last chapter (And, believe me, this chapter is really worth!) I'm lucky, but I would like read the other stories very much!

[Alelou]

Obviously there's some problem with the code that's being generated for stories that aren't already hand-coded.

Until Mike and John figure that out ... you really can just go download Mozilla Firefox for free. Just google it. I often find that stuff that won't work on one browser will work on that one, and vice versa, so it's kind of handy to have.

(This is not necessarily useful if you're using someone else's computer system, I know.)

[Asso]

Ooookay! I will try.

[bluetiger]

I took your advice and down loaded mozilla firefox and everything works great. I'm off to read now. Alelou I got your happy faces on firefox!