Seidl
02-14-2001, 09:55 AM
Some of you using the java client a few days ago probably notices that quotation marks, less-thans, greater-thans and ampersands all were looking ... funny. Let me explain.
The server was going through an upgrade to send these characters as html instead of as plain text. This is in the long run a good thing, as the more html the server sends and the clients understand, the easier it will be to do things like server-side config files, who's in the room lists, etc.
The problem was that netscape caches things locally. So, instead of you getting the new client that could understand the html for these symboles, you got the old one that netscape had helpfully saved for you. And since the older version didn't know how to handle these special things, so saw all the goop.
Everyone should be seeing things right now, as the caches should have expired. Hopefully we can avoid bugs like this in the future but ... the joys of a beta. http://www.skotos.net/ubb/smile.gif You may also see some new features in the text processing coming soon, but I don't have all the details on that yet.
-=- Matt
The server was going through an upgrade to send these characters as html instead of as plain text. This is in the long run a good thing, as the more html the server sends and the clients understand, the easier it will be to do things like server-side config files, who's in the room lists, etc.
The problem was that netscape caches things locally. So, instead of you getting the new client that could understand the html for these symboles, you got the old one that netscape had helpfully saved for you. And since the older version didn't know how to handle these special things, so saw all the goop.
Everyone should be seeing things right now, as the caches should have expired. Hopefully we can avoid bugs like this in the future but ... the joys of a beta. http://www.skotos.net/ubb/smile.gif You may also see some new features in the text processing coming soon, but I don't have all the details on that yet.
-=- Matt