Oh, and another apology, for the fact that the GetWX Perl script misses posts.

I have no idea why it does this, and of course I can't do anything about it from here, but I'd really like some details on how it happens.

Here are some assumptions:

1. that it happens intermittently
2. that it happens intermittently because of the random insertion of ads at the bottom, or the top, of a WX page
3. that because of this, it wouldn't be possible to track down by "following" the progress of the virtual Perl browser with a regular browser, because they'd be "seeing" different ads"
4. It would be possible to track down if we saved each page in its entirety, prior to the regular-expression cleanups of them and their appending to the main file (this is trivial, anyone who knows Perl could do that)
5. Following the above, the problem is that a regular expression, when the "wrong" ad is displayed, deletes a bigger chunk of that page than it was intended to do, because of something in the ad

t happy note the use of a,b,c-style ordered list -- thanks Jon! t /happy

There's no need to apologize, John. WX did something unexpected with the random ads. One thought I had was that we could use WX's "Get all posts" URL to download the thread in much larger chunks (200-300 posts at a time), which would be more efficient, take less time, and probably simplify cleaning things up.

You know you don't really have to worry about any of this til you get back, right? Have fun!

I believe that DX and John H. are correct. I've been testing a stylesheet with no font sizes in the P tag (and a couple of other related tags) and I think it will work with minimum side effects. I'll post something in Press and then upload the new stylesheet. If there are valid complaints by the late-night users, I can flip it back in the morning (i.e. in about 7 hours).

Netscape 4.8 on PC-Windows ME. The small fonts looked small to me, guys. The normal stuff looked normal. This is, however, (way) after Jon's post in Press, so it may have no relevancy at all. If so, 'scusi.

I don't understand, Beverly. Do the small and normal fonts look different than before, or the same?

t edit Oh wait - you're talking about Rio's problem upthread? So you're saying it looks right to you now, but it didn't before?

WOW! All my fonts are huge now. It's kinda pleasant given my blindness. But whacky.

Netscape 4.78 Windows 95.

The small fonts are small on my screen, Jon, and always have been. Since you did whatever you said you were going to do (in your announcement in Press), nothing whatever seems to have changed on my screen.

I'm assuming this is a good thing, that I should be glad everything hasn't gone huge?

Stuff's pretty large for me, Opera 6.05, W2K, but not unworkably so.

Here's a different problem. Sometimes, from home, I can't read the Phoenix with Mozilla. I can read it fine with IE.

It doesn't always fail, but when it does, it seems to always hang forever with "Sending request to www.buffista.org..." in the status bar.

This never happens from work, only from home.

Not a big deal, just thought I'd mention it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Explorer Version: 5.2.2 (5010.1)