Writing Online

Incorrect default mime.types

We got a bug report from a member who was posting an HTML file linking to an external CSS file in his personal web page space: Mozilla 1.0 RC1 was not rendering the CSS.

If the samples in Mozilla's Bugzilla entries 111327 and 129468 are any indication, the default MIME types set on these servers are invalid:

• Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP2
• Netscape-Enterprise 4.x
• Zeus/4.1
• WebSTAR/3.0 ID/59888

You can see a sample of the error here, at least momentarily. It's been corrected on the web servers for personal web pages.

Sometimes my work intersects with other things I do in interesting ways.

6:05:00 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online, System Administration

Usable Error Messages

Radio says,

[Macro error: Can't get the address of "methodResponse" because the table doesn't have an object with that name.]

Let's translate this into something helpful, shall we?

[Macro error: Can't get the address of "methodResponse" because the $TABLEIBEENLOOKINFER table doesn't have an object with the name $OBJECTIBEENLOOKINFER.]

I'd particularly like the $TABLEIBEENLOOKINFER variable to be defined, so then I could quickly find the table Radio thinks it needs for this script.

4:29:17 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online