> > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; 
> > Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject 
> > Required Attributes = Author, Type, Subject 
> > Options Type = Deposition{1}, Arc Studies{1}, Conditioning{1}, Vacuum{2}, 
> > Other{3} 
> > Preset Type = Deposition 
>  
> The "Preset xxx" option actually never was ment to be used with conditional 
> attributes. I added that functionality in rev. 1.553. Please give it a try. 
 
it works fine !!! thank you so much (btw, using Preset xxx{1} it doesn't 
works.. but it should be the correct beaviour) 

> > current version uses strstr() to check if the file has the expected ascii 
> > text extension ... this is buggy becouse this way a file named 
> > ".txt_hidden_file" or "foo.config.dat" are both seen as .txt files. 
>  
> I added your routine chkext() to the code, but actually use it differently. I 
> display now ASCII files not by their extension, but the code checks for each file 
> to contain non-printable characters. If it contains all printable letters, and does 
> not have the extension PDF, PS or EPS, it's shown inline. 
 
I totally agree with you choice :-) 

> > the following should do the job: 
> >  
> > <div style="width: 200px"> 
> > <img src="IMG_3133.jpg" style="width: 100%" /> 
> > </div> 
> >  
> > the configurable parameter should be with obviously :-) 
>  
> Unfortunately not. Please find attached the screen dump from such a try, together with the HTML code. 
> As you can see, the little elog icon is stretched to the same width as the upper (large) picture. 
 
you are right ;-( I used a different code in my test and sent you and old test code, *but* also the last 
one does not works on every browser ... the following code would do the job, but it seems to work only 
in gecko-based browsers such as mozilla, firefox and safari ... 
 
<div style="width: 200px"> 
 <img src="IMG_3133.jpg" style="max-width: 200" /> 
</div> 
 
other browsers do not scale the vertical dimention :-( 

using:
Display mode = threaded
List display = Subject, Type, Author, Date

in the config file (omitting "ID" then) rise the bug

ie, an unneeded "," is displayed after the "supposed to be printed" ID

> > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> 

> > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p>
> 
> Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be
> replaced?

uhmm...

http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7

the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also
in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example)

I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
printing-to-the-browser-time ..

> > > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> > 

> > > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p>
> > 
> > Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be
> > replaced?
> 
> uhmm...
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7
> 
> the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also
> in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example)
> 
> I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
> not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
> following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
> everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
> printing-to-the-browser-time ..

BTW, the current url (taht should be perfectly well formed makes the elog not to
display attachments ... so may be thare is a problema in the query string decoding
routine ...

http://somehost.it:8080/LBNAME/?mode=full&amp;attach=1

> > > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> > 

> > > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p>
> > 
> > Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be
> > replaced?
> 
> uhmm...
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7
> 
> the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also
> in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example)
> 
> I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
> not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
> following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
> everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
> printing-to-the-browser-time ..

BTW, the current url (taht should be perfectly well formed makes the elog not to
display attachments ... so may be thare is a problema in the query string decoding
routine ...

http://somehost.it:8080/LBNAME/?mode=full&amp;attach=1

Display subject = <b>$subject</b>

is printed to the browser encoded, so that it is diplayed as is..