The following characters were prepended to the data values for all of the columns when running my INET_RLIST report via a web page in Netscape 4.7 and beta version 6.0. This did not exist when running from I.E. 5.0:

&nbsp - for instance

Job Title

&nbspSystems Analyst

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Gene

Gene,

This must be yet another bug in Inet_Rlist. I cannot remember having heard of it before.

Try to run from IE again. Then select View | Source. Then you can see the garbage there too.

The garbage is a not properly terminated html entity for a non-breaking space. It should be   - with a semicolon at the end. It seems IE is more tolerant than Nav 4.7. (Unfortunately I just upgraded to 4.7, so I cannot check how it is in earlier versions.)

- Oystein -

Thanks for your response.

Like it or not, it looks like I need to get up to speed on HTML and it's various quirks.

What HTML editor do you use? I have started using Frontpage 2000, but it's menu driven approach to design seems overly complex and difficult to master. I've read positive references to Dreamweaver… ?

Gene

Gene,

What HTML editor do you use? I have started using Frontpage 2000, but it's menu driven approach to design seems overly complex and difficult to master. I've read positive references to Dreamweaver… ?

I have a colleague who praises Dreamweaver a lot.

Myself I use Word - on text files. I'm a control freak. I have to see the codes. And I want no other codes than my own.

Or to be fair to myself - with the stuff I've made the emphasis has been on programming, not visual design. E.g my Inet functions put together pages from lots of fixed bits of html and lots of bits of database data. E.g I do Inet_Rlist-like things programmatically (not the bugs . So I need to see the details.

- Øystein -

Gene,

I personally like HTML-Kit from Chami. It is freeware, and is very powerful.

It has several cool plug-ins you can use as well. One is an HTML tidy-up program that will improve the general layout of the code to make it more readable, and it also has a validator. You pick the formal spec (HTML 3.0, HTML 4.0, etc.) and it will validate your code against that standard.

After it makes the changes, it shows them to you and lets you decide if you want to keep the changes or not, unlike FrontPage that just makes the changes and that's it.

Click here to go to the HTML-Kit home page.

msorrel@greyhound.com

Oystein,

For your Inet_Rlist-like things that you do, have you created custom OI internet functions called from the web pages, or did you develop Java or other web functions to do the same types of things…?

Also, separate subject - what has your experience been with the performance of OI when run as an OICGI internet gateway, and in conjunction with multiple users (20+) logged onto a web server to do data entry and ad hoc reporting? At least a few people have alluded to OI being a performance hog, and before I get fully into this, I want to make sure that OI running in this way is viable for a multi-user, commercial, web application, supporting many concurrent end users.

Any details or insights you would be willing to share would be invaluable.

If you prefer, don't hesitate to email me at gsorbo@ziplink.net

Regards.

Gene

Thanks.

Gene

Gene,

What version of OpenInsight are you running? This bug should have been fixed in the latest version 3.72/3 (?) along with another INET_RLIST bug to do with column heading widths.

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Freeware does have a nice ring to it!

Anyway, thanks for the info., Matt. I will check it out.

Gene

Running version 3.61 - I guess I need to upgrade.

Thanks for the info. on the bug fix.

Gene

I run 3.61 too.

- Oystein -

Gene,

Custom OI Inet functions. No Java. A bit of JavaScript in the pages.

Performance: Haven't tried with many simultaneous users.

- Oystein -

Gene/Oystein,

The fix is actually in the WEB_RLIST_CALLBACK() routine, so if you don't want to totally upgrade the rest of your app you could extract this function from an upgrade and apply it.

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Thanks.

- Oystein -

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