You maybe also noticed spaces are then converted to underscores.


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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]Namens hwg-iwa(at)xlanguage.com
> Verzonden: maandag 5 november 2001 20:46
> Aan: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> Onderwerp: Re: Offline broken links with Mac
> 
> 
> On 11/1/01 6:54 PM, Norton <norton(at)erinet.com> wrote:
> > I burned some offline HTML files to a CD.  In IE in Windows 
> the pages 
> > appear and link as they should.  I then transferred the CD to an
> > iBook and a PowerBook G4, both running OS 9.1.  I can open a single 
> > HTML page just fine, but no links work.
> 
> This sounds like a cross-platform filesystem issue.  Any time 
> you move 
> a web site between volumes that have different OS formats you can see 
> broken links because of filesystem incompatibilities such as:
> 
> * case-sensitivity (Macs & PCs ignore filename/URL case 
> mismatches but 
> they show up as broken links under Linux)
> * invalid/truncated file names (moving a PC-formatted ZIP, floppy, or 
> CD-ROM drive to a Mac will show only the short, 8.3 DOS names, while 
> all of the links stay long)
> 
> You didn't mention what filesystem is on the CD-ROM you burned but if 
> it was ISO-9660, your filenames will get truncated to an 8.3 format, 
> perhaps explaining the "PAGE.HTM" / "page.html" mismatch.
> 
> When starting on a site it is a good idea to have some coding 
> guidelines such as using only lower-case filenames and URLs 
> and keeping 
> them short.  If that isn't/wasn't an option, my company makes a 
> utility, HTML Rename!, that can clean up most of these problems after 
> the fact.  http://www.xlanguage.com/products/rename.htm
> 
> Regards,
> Terence Parker
> Expandable Language -- Efficient Web site repair
> http://www.xlanguage.com
> 
> 
>  
> 

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