CD - Html windows & Apples!

[Ash]

Hello

I have just created a CD of Photo Albums which are all in pretty plain html.
Everything works fine in a PC, but as the disc is going to be duplicated and
distributed to around 50 people, some of them well may well want to view the
albums on Apple machines.

When I tried the Disc in a friends Imac, I could load up the index.html page
okay, but the links into other folders wouldn't work. The Imac just came up
saying file not found. Knowing nothing about Apple Computers and not having
easy access to one, what do I need to do to make things work as they should?

Thanks for any advice.

Ash

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

I have just created a CD of Photo Albums which are all in pretty plain html.
Everything works fine in a PC, but as the disc is going to be duplicated and
distributed to around 50 people, some of them well may well want to view the
albums on Apple machines.

When I tried the Disc in a friends Imac, I could load up the index.html page
okay, but the links into other folders wouldn't work. The Imac just came up
saying file not found. Knowing nothing about Apple Computers and not having
easy access to one, what do I need to do to make things work as they should?

Are you referring to absolute paths, like "D:\foo.html"? Different
operating systems refer to their CD drives in different ways, so your
safest bet is to use "foo.html" and the like and not refer to the CD
drive at all.

Also, are you using backslashes for files in directories (like
"foo\bar.html")? Mac OS (and almost every other operating system besides
Windows) use forward slashes for that; use them instead.

 

[Ash]

Are you referring to absolute paths, like "D:\foo.html"? Different
operating systems refer to their CD drives in different ways, so your
safest bet is to use "foo.html" and the like and not refer to the CD
drive at all.

Also, are you using backslashes for files in directories (like
"foo\bar.html")? Mac OS (and almost every other operating system besides
Windows) use forward slashes for that; use them instead.

Thanks for the reply. Yes I'm using backslashes i.e.:

<A HREF="news/news.html">Camp Newspapers</A>

Can you use forward slashes without problems in Windows?

Ash

 

[Toby Inkster]

Also, are you using backslashes for files in directories (like
"foo\bar.html")? Mac OS (and almost every other operating system besides
Windows) use forward slashes for that; use them instead.

Windows in fact has supported both '\' *and* '/', as did MS-DOS. (Though
certain DOS and Windows *programs* refuse to recognise '/'.)

 

[rf]

Thanks for the reply. Yes I'm using backslashes i.e.:

<A HREF="news/news.html">Camp Newspapers</A>

Er, that *is* a forward slash.

Can you use forward slashes without problems in Windows?

It is not Windows that is reading the URL. It is a web browser. / is used
in the "web" context, not \.

The browser and the file system will work out between themselves the actual
URI of the file.

 

[Jim Higson]

Er, that *is* a forward slash.


It is not Windows that is reading the URL. It is a web browser. / is used
in the "web" context, not \.

The browser and the file system will work out between themselves the
actual URI of the file.

Hmm... odd Microsoft made the (probably wrong) decision to use backslashes
to delimininate local dirs, while the internet used/uses forward slashes. I
suppose it reflects MS's disinterest for the web during the DOS years.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Hmm... odd Microsoft made the (probably wrong) decision to use
backslashes to delimininate local dirs, while the internet used/uses
forward slashes. I suppose it reflects MS's disinterest for the web
during the DOS years.

Would not MS's decision to use backslashes for DOS predate the Web by
many years?

 

[Sam Hughes]

Hmm... odd Microsoft made the (probably wrong) decision to use
backslashes to delimininate local dirs, while the internet used/uses
forward slashes. I suppose it reflects MS's disinterest for the web
during the DOS years.

This decision was made before the Web existed.

 

[Toby Inkster]

I suppose it reflects MS's disinterest for the web during the DOS years.

Or perhaps it was because the Web never existed when DOS was designed.

Hmm... odd Microsoft made the (probably wrong) decision to use backslashes
to delimininate local dirs, while the internet used/uses forward slashes.

FWIW, DOS isn't the only OS to use backslashes. CP/M did. OS/2 did.

However, DOS wasn't tied to the backslash. In most programs you could use
a regular slash instead if you wanted to.

 

[xeno]

Hmm... odd Microsoft made the (probably wrong) decision to use backslashes
to delimininate local dirs, while the internet used/uses forward slashes. I
suppose it reflects MS's disinterest for the web during the DOS years.

Microsoft never made any decisions about the use of backslashes...
they never made any DOS... Bill bought it...

 

[Jeffrey Silverman]

Er, that *is* a forward slash.

My pet peeve, here. People getting "forward" and "back" slashes mixed up.

I see/hear it all the time. I see it in print, on the web, and I have
heard it on radio and TV, in commercials, and spoken by announcers or
actors when saying a website URL.

"blah-blah-blah.blah-blah.com, back-slash, thingy"

Wrong!

Argh! Like I said, just a pet peeve, but annoying nonetheless. Plus it
shows a greater lack of knowledge on the part of the public about
computers and technology. This, to me, is both a Good Thing(R) and a Bag
Thing(TM).

Hmmph...
later

 

[Neal]

"blah-blah-blah.blah-blah.com, back-slash, thingy"

Wrong!

So, we need to add backslash = forward slash to that pseudo-FAQ, hmm? (The
one which tells you what a tag is)

 

[Toby Inkster]

My pet peeve, here. People getting "forward" and "back" slashes mixed up.
[...] Plus it shows a greater lack of knowledge on the part of the public
about computers and technology.

Or punctuation.