Re: Melvyl and browser question

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From: Anthony Roybal (ar@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 23:41:23 PDT

Hi,

After very quick and dirty testing, I found that Netscape 7.02 works
out of the box without tweaking any settings; check out:

<http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ar/working/browsers/melvyl-netscape.jpg>

I was not able to get any of the other Mozilla-based Mac OS X browsers
(Mozilla Firebird 1.4a, Camino 0.7 and Mozilla 1.4) to properly display
the page. But I didn't try very hard either. :) For what it's worth,
Safari beta 1 v74 does not properly display the page, but MSIE 5.2.3
does.

So since Netscape supports automatic proxy configuration and also
displays the character set properly why not use Netscape?

Does anyone have any experiences with other character sets with
Netscape or other browsers?

Regards,
Anthony Roybal
Workstation Software Support Group

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Glenn D. Tiffert wrote:

>
> Does anyone know how to make a/any mac browser parse melvyl records
> correctly so they display unicode in the appropriate glyphs?
>
> I've seen computers in campus libraries parse the records correctly and
> display the unicode in (say) chinese or japanese, but only under
> X-Windows.
>
> Take this record for example:
>
> http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/
> HQT84BXA6GI43SX8FAS8717SYEI7ELB83ML3VI7BPREKGSSM45
> -02182?func=full-set-set&set_number=079704&set_entry=000005&format=999
>
> I'm using Mozilla 1.4RC2, and no amount of tinkering with the language
> or
> character set settings seems to work. I haven't tried other browsers
> because I believe I have to use Mozilla to work with the library's
> proxy
> server.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -------------------------
> Glenn D. Tiffert
> tiffert@post.harvard.edu
>
>
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