NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Lewis and Clark.
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Sep 19, 09:52 +0100
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.