Re: Gravity bike

[Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

Thanks, Doug. I had no trouble of reading the article using the
Internet Explorer. But it is disturbing to know that some URL
are browser-specific. Progress is too fast in this area, for my
taste. By the time one becomes comfortable with a particular
technology it may no longer be reliable. Something is not right.
Ludwik Kowalski

Doug Craigen wrote:

> I think this page sets the type in a funny fashion, or perhaps a new
> fashion.  In Netscape 4.7 I see these tags, indicating it is being
> interpreted as a text rather than html document.  In IE 5.5 I see a
> proper web page.
>
> Curiously this link isn't to a folder as I had assumed, rather it is to
> a file which has no extension in the file name.
>
> Note that in the code everything is set as absolute links back to their
> site.  This means you can go to the site, see the code, File>Save this
> to your disk in Netscape - with a .html extension - then open the file
> on your disk and you will see the page.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ludwik Kowalski" <kowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
> > To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 9:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: Gravity bike
> >
> > > Am I the only one to see html tags mixed with the text?
> > > I just checked another URL and the text was displayed
> > > normally (without tags). What is going on?
> > >
> > > > > Responding to Dwight Brian Whatcott  suggested:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > <http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_cycle_001218_wg>
> > > Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> > >
> > > > What are tags?
> > > >
> > > > My browser can read HTML.  That page is in plain text.
> > >
> > > If others see text only then something must be wrong with my
> > > computer.