Re: Ready for the Big Time!

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 20 2002 - 00:04:25 EDT

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     --- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote: >
    > i had a look at this a while ago and got the same
    > result.
    >
    > Abiword is an XML document, IE6 does not understand
    > the dialect of XML
    > used. Mozilla at least manages to display the text
    > of the document.
    >
    > Frankly i am surprised that a web browser (Mozilla)
    > was able to make any
    > decent attempt at loading a Word Processing document
    > format, which is
    > quite different from html web pages.
    >
    > If you want the stylesheet you will have to right
    > click on the link and
    > choose to "save target as" and then open it with
    > Abiword.
    >
    > It would be very nice if IE6 and even better Mozilla
    > v1.0 could display
    > abiword documents properly, although I dont know
    > what would be needed to
    > make the XML more understandable.

    If we have a good DTD and some funky XSLT (I think) we
    should be able to get something fairly viewable in a
    browser I would think. Of course we also have the new
    abiwidget thingy so browser plugins to embed AbiWord
    might be possible...

    Andrew Dunbar.

    > Best of luck
    >
    > Alan Horkan
    >
    >
    >
    > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jim Colvin wrote:
    >
    > > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:08:22 -0700
    > > From: Jim Colvin <jimcolvin@prodigy.net>
    > > To: AbiWord Developer List
    > <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
    > > Cc: David Chart <linux@dchart.demon.co.uk>
    > > Subject: Re: Ready for the Big Time!
    > >
    > > Hi David,
    > >
    > > I just checked your link for the Abiword template
    > and got the following
    > > error
    > > (using IE 6.0):
    > >
    > > The XML page cannot be displayed
    > > Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please
    > correct the error and then
    > > click the Refresh button, or try again later.
    > >
    > > Content model is invalid. Error processing
    > resource
    > > 'http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd'. Line 28,
    > Position 14
    > >
    > > <!ELEMENT iw CDATA>
    > > -------------^
    > >
    > > (The caret is under "C" in the browser window.) Is
    > this a problem with IE 6
    > > or with the Abiword DTD?
    > >
    > > Jim Colvin
    > > jimcolvin@prodigy.net
    > >
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: "David Chart" <linux@dchart.demon.co.uk>
    > > To: "AbiWord Developer List"
    > <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
    > > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:37 AM
    > > Subject: Ready for the Big Time!
    > >
    > >
    > > > Take a look at:
    > > >
    > > > http://www.atlas-games.com/arm_submit.html
    > > >
    > > > AbiWord is ready for professional writers. (OK,
    > so I'm responsible for
    > > > the line in question -- there's a limited number
    > of people who could
    > > > have had a template ready and available for the
    > 1.0 release, after all.)
    > > > --
    > > > David Chart
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >

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