Re: Field names beginning with Reg..
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 42952
interpreted = N
texte = I'm sure you're right that it's the browser. I'm using IE 5.1 for Mac. Theproof of the pudding is that it's still writing the fields to the dbcorrectly... bit of a worry though.....-- Tim RobinsonIDFK Web Developmentstim@idfk.com.au114a/40 Yeo StreetNeutral Bay 2089AustraliaPhone +612 9908 2134Fax +612 9908 4837> From: Michael Davis
> Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:54:31> To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Subject: Re: Field names beginning with Reg..> > I ran into this a while back with §, as in §ion=[blah]. But it> wasn't a webcat error, it was a Windows IE error. This only happened> on Windows IE browsers. So, with that narrowing it down, I was able to> determine what was happening. Windows IE does not (as it should)> require the ; semi-colon termination of named character encodings. So> where other browsers would properly show §ion, Win IE would> incorrectly decode the § part and the result was §ion. Make sure> you are not just seeing an illusion when viewing your source code in> Win IE while trying to debug this.> > More: I have just confirmed that this is now a bug in IE 5.2 on OS X.> This used _not_ to be a problem on Mac. Haven't checked it in a while> so maybe it was the jump to OS X. But I have confirmed that putting> [interpret]®istrantidtype[/interpret] in a template served via OS> 9.2/WebDNA 4.5 does not interpret the ® into the registration> symbol. But the browser (IE 5.2 OSX) does interpret it as> Žistrantidtype. This confirms that it's the browser, not WebDNA, at> least in this small example.> > Glen: This technique is actually quite useful in certain circumstances> (using [interpret] this way, that is). The first place I saw it used> this way was long ago in the DBEditor that is posted to the WebCatalog> examples FTP site. Basically, you loop through the db fields> dynamically for use in your append or replace context instead of> writing out the code longhand. Very handy for databases with many> fields.> > Mike> > On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 09:24 PM, Tim Robinson wrote:> >> Thanks for your reply Glenn.>> >> Here's the [append]:>> >> [append db=data/registration.db]SKU=[cart]&[ListFields>> db=data/registration.db][FieldName]=[Interpret][[FieldName]][/>> Interpret]&[/L>> istFields][/append]>> >> adding [url] does not work:>> >> &[ListFields>> db=data/registration.db][[url]FieldName[/>> url]]=[Interpret][[[url]FieldName[/>> url]]][/Interpret]&[/ListFields]>> >> It returns (literally) [FieldName]=[actual field name]>> >> Tim> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/> -------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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I'm sure you're right that it's the browser. I'm using IE 5.1 for Mac. Theproof of the pudding is that it's still writing the fields to the dbcorrectly... bit of a worry though.....-- Tim RobinsonIDFK Web Developmentstim@idfk.com.au114a/40 Yeo StreetNeutral Bay 2089AustraliaPhone +612 9908 2134Fax +612 9908 4837> From: Michael Davis > Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:54:31> To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Subject: Re: Field names beginning with Reg..> > I ran into this a while back with §, as in §ion=[blah]. But it> wasn't a webcat error, it was a Windows IE error. This only happened> on Windows IE browsers. So, with that narrowing it down, I was able to> determine what was happening. Windows IE does not (as it should)> require the ; semi-colon termination of named character encodings. So> where other browsers would properly show §ion, Win IE would> incorrectly decode the § part and the result was §ion. Make sure> you are not just seeing an illusion when viewing your source code in> Win IE while trying to debug this.> > More: I have just confirmed that this is now a bug in IE 5.2 on OS X.> This used _not_ to be a problem on Mac. Haven't checked it in a while> so maybe it was the jump to OS X. But I have confirmed that putting> [interpret]®istrantidtype[/interpret] in a template served via OS> 9.2/WebDNA 4.5 does not interpret the ® into the registration> symbol. But the browser (IE 5.2 OSX) does interpret it as> Žistrantidtype. This confirms that it's the browser, not WebDNA, at> least in this small example.> > Glen: This technique is actually quite useful in certain circumstances> (using [interpret] this way, that is). The first place I saw it used> this way was long ago in the DBEditor that is posted to the WebCatalog> examples FTP site. Basically, you loop through the db fields> dynamically for use in your append or replace context instead of> writing out the code longhand. Very handy for databases with many> fields.> > Mike> > On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 09:24 PM, Tim Robinson wrote:> >> Thanks for your reply Glenn.>> >> Here's the [append]:>> >> [append db=data/registration.db]SKU=[cart]&[ListFields>> db=data/registration.db][FieldName]=[interpret][[FieldName]][/>> Interpret]&[/L>> istFields][/append]>> >> adding [url] does not work:>> >> &[ListFields>> db=data/registration.db][[url]FieldName[/>> url]]=[interpret][[[url]FieldName[/>> url]]][/Interpret]&[/ListFields]>> >> It returns (literally) [FieldName]=[actual field name]>> >> Tim> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/> -------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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