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    Re: Lewis and Clark.
    From: George Huxtable
    Date: 2010 Sep 19, 09:52 +0100

    This is addressed to any of the software gurus that we have on Navlist.
    
    I wonder if anyone can advise me about this curiosity, which has shown up
    in the way Firefox (but not Internet Explorer) displays the Lewis & Clark
    website at http://www.hux.me.uk/lewis02.htm , that I pointed to yesterday,
    about the early stages of their journey.
    
    It contains several small tables of observed numbers, which are displayed
    without problems, until this table appears, dealing with their attempts at
    lunar distances, on the night of 2 - 3 Dec, 1803. It can be found a bit
    more than half-way down that website.
    
    =========================
    
    B. Moon (near-limb) to Regulus (E. of Moon). 3 Dec.
    
    chron. time (am)  h  m   s    lunar distance deg   '    "
                            00 11 12                          17 47 15
                            00 21 59                          17 45 15
                            00 23 58                          17 45 00
                            00 29 49                          17 44 00
                            00 35 04                          17 37 15
                            00 39 56                          17 37 00
              average  00 27 00            average  17 42 38
    
    ======================
    
    All's well until the third item down, with numbers-
    
                           00 23 58                         17 45 00
    Then, on that line, and that line alone, the formatting, as shown on
    Firefox, has been quite lost (sorry, I can't reproduce that here). Instead,
    the numbers are written, out-of-column, close-packed in pairs, within a
    blue cartouche which also shows a telephone symbol. Hovering the mouse over
    it brings up a note stating it to be a phone number in Chad! If clicked on,
    maybe somebody's phone, in Chad, would ring...
    
    Poking about, more or less at random, I found a blue icon, with a letter S,
    near the top of the Firefox screen, which turned out to be related to the
    Skype system for telephone-video. Clicking on it showed it to be "Skype
    extension for Firefox", which seems to have appeared, unbidden. That showed
    two check-boxes, both with tickmarks, "turn number highlighting on", and
    "turn name highlighting on". On removing those tickmarks, the upset to the
    displayed table went away, and all was well.
    
    So that combination of numbers, appearing on screen, had been interpreted
    as a phone number, and reformatted accordingly. May we be preserved from
    such too-clever-by-half interference! In my own case, I've now made that
    problem in the display go away, but I can't do that for other readers of
    the website. So, I'm looking for a way to state, within the HTML coding of
    that website, something to the effect that "all numbers on this website
    really are proper numbers, to be formatted accordingly, and none are
    intended as phone numbers or anything else of that kind". Can this be done?
    I suppose not.
    
    George.
    
    .contact George Huxtable, at  george{at}hux.me.uk
    or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
    or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
    
    
    
    
    

       
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