China the Beautiful

Guilinbog · Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 29

I have sent Ming an email with an html file attached.

The email says:

"Well, I finally got around to cleaning all the garbage off that html page. ( http://www.chinapage.com/quote/5pinyin.html ) Almost all of those references to my site were for pages that never even existed on my site. They were like a mix between names of html files on your site with the name of my domain.. I wont pretend to understand.

Furthermore, the page and links work regardless of the strange references in the links. A couple weeks ago I even deleted that original page I had posted for you to review, and I checked today and the page on your site still works.

Anyway, I deleted all the strange stuff and put the link references exactly as they are on your site on the original chenyu page. I have attached the html page to this email. I checked several times for errors but I may have missed some. By the way, it's coded for UTF- Cool

"

chinapage · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

Dear Guilinbog:

Sorry for not replying to your post sooner. I want to
take some time to review the material before my reply.

Thank you for revising your previous webpage. I have
now added it (1.htm) to the web site, so everyone can
review it and comment.

The original post is obsolete and removed. The new
version can be accessed at

http://www.chinapage.com/quote/1.htm
or from
http://www.chinapage.com/quote/saying.html

The new version is much better and shows pinyin very
well, provided that the webpage is viewed using
Microsoft's browser IE7.

This does not display properly if it is viewed using
Firefox browser. And I think it also won't work when
viewed by Apple computers.

The reason for this is, I believe, it is written with Microsoft's
Word.

I shall post a separate comment about this next.

Thanks again for your effort. It is not easy to develop
a procedure to do this task in an regular, straight forward
manner.

Ming

Aolung · Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 1037

chinapage · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject:

Aolung · Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 1037

Mac browsers display the 2nd version (yet, since there aren't any diacritic marks, what should be the problem?).

Alfred

chinapage · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:20 am Post subject:

The point is: Why waste a lot of time to create the page, if
the final result does not show the tonal mark.

One can get the second version by simply typing it like this:

ke4zhou1qiu2jian4

Look at the source code and you will see my point.

My personal feeling is that the final page should show
the "better" result when it is seen by both IE and by Firefox
browsers.

Ming

Guilinbog · Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 29

I agree that the page should appear correctly in all browsers for it to be useful...

and I also agree that tonal marks would be much better than tone numbers..

I'll try to look for another solution when I have time..