Snarl about Slopera (and Fireflop)

[Mr Initial Man]

The one thing that I like most about Internet Exploiter is I can view my website on my hard drive, instead of having to upload it first. With Fireflop or Slopera, I can't.

Here's why.

IEvil: C:\Mister_Initial_Man\Library\fanfics.html

Firef***: file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Library/fanfics.html

OperAAAH!: file://localhost/C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Library/fanfics.html

Since I've broken my C:/Mister_Initial_Man folder into several subfolders, (one containing my CSS, one containing my graphics, and so on), guess which is the only browser I can test my stuff on before uploading it?

If I could get around this, I would, but...

BTW, if an Admin could think of a better place for this thread, go ahead, and move it. :-)

[pyro]

Originally posted by Mr Initial Man
file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Library/fanfics.htmlWhat's the problem with that?

Originally posted by Mr Initial Man
Since I've broken my C:/Mister_Initial_Man folder into several subfolders, (one containing my CSS, one containing my graphics, and so on), guess which is the only browser I can test my stuff on before uploading it?Don't know... I've always use multiple folders (images, etc) when making sites, and can always preview them locally in Firefox.

[pawky]

Originally posted by Mr Initial Man
The one thing that I like most about Internet Exploiter is I can view my website on my hard drive, instead of having to upload it first. With Fireflop or Slopera, I can't.

Here's why.

IEvil: C:\Mister_Initial_Man\Library\fanfics.html

Firef***: file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Library/fanfics.html

OperAAAH!: file://localhost/C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Library/fanfics.html

Since I've broken my C:/Mister_Initial_Man folder into several subfolders, (one containing my CSS, one containing my graphics, and so on), guess which is the only browser I can test my stuff on before uploading it?

If I could get around this, I would, but...

BTW, if an Admin could think of a better place for this thread, go ahead, and move it. :-)


use relative links and it will work any where on anything. if you dont know that that is ask and we can explain. ./filename.html is same folder, ../filename.html is up one folder, ../../filename.html is up two folders, /filename.html is root folder. that type thing, we can say more if you need it

[Stephen Philbin]

You should find that all browsers support file:/// even IE. It's just that as per usual IE likes to be a bell-end and use something different from all the other browsers by default.

[Mr Initial Man]

Okay, here's where my problem is.

Document I'm trying to view: file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Library/fanfics.html

CSS: file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/CSS/setup.css, file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/CSS/setup.css

Graphic: file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Graphics/Censors/g-m.gif

Fizzlefox won't go back to my root directory properly, so when I have my graphic as <img src="/Mister_Initial_Man/Graphics/Censors/g-m.gif"> it reads it as <img src="file:///Mister_Initial_Man/Censors/g-m.gif"> instead of <img src="file:///C:/Mister_Initial_Man/Censors/g-m.gif">

Flopera reads it as <img src="file://localhost/Mister_Initial_Man/Censors/g-m.gif">

Because my website is hosted (www.Furnation.com/Mister_Initial_Man/) I have to have my links set up that way.

[chrismartz]

run IIS on your computer or even Apache and just run those pages on there!

[Mr Initial Man]

Now to sound like a complete computer idiot...

What is IIS, and what is Apache?

[Jupac]

Server softwear
I dont know the iis site (mircosoft made)

http://apache.org/

[Stephen Philbin]

Why not just do the very sensible and simple thing of using relative addresses like Pawky said? Bit silly not to really.

[Jupac]

Ctrl+O ????

[Mr Initial Man]

What do you mean by "relative addresses?"

[pawky]

Originally posted by Mr Initial Man
What do you mean by "relative addresses?"

relatives are the best way to do your links as it refers to where the file is in relation to you current page you are working from instead of how you are currently doing it where it sends it up to the root directory first. instead of doing it how you are doign it with just '/' you will use these three options: '/' which refers to root folder, './' refers to same folder, and '../' refers to the previous folder.

so for example. in your site fanfics.html where you refer to your css file you would use: '../CSS/setup.css' and to refer to the graphic you would use: '../graphics/censors/g-m.gif'

You will find this to work a lot better. And if you need any more help just ask. Also, I would suggest that you dont use caps in your files. I think it is best to just keep everything lowercase so there is no confusion. I have found some servers or whatever are picky about caps and all.

[Reli4nt]

Ive never heard anyone complain about this before. Is everything, including firefox, et. al.; running off of the same drive?

Otherwise, try a young priest and an old one...

[Mr Initial Man]

Actually, I actually named the folder using caps. It's how I distinguish between folders and files.

[pawky]

Originally posted by Mr Initial Man
Actually, I actually named the folder using caps. It's how I distinguish between folders and files.

that's ok, i personally just find it easier to do everything in lowercase so there is never any confusion when i mess w/ it later on.

and did the whole relative links stuff make sense?

[Mr Initial Man]

Worked great. What if you had to go back TWO folders?

[fredmv]

Originally posted by Mr Initial Man
Worked great. What if you had to go back TWO folders? Just repeat it for every directory you want to go up. So, for two directories up:../../

[Mr Initial Man]

Thanks