Talk:User group meeting & agenda 5 November 2008

Brackets problem
Firefox interpretes 5B and 5D as [ and ]. This create a problem when doing external links. In the Family History Library Catalog - there are some urls containing [ and ].

Glaring example is Klamath Falls, Oregon newsletter link (I am deliberable in making external link so you won't leave this page to see the problem.

I can't link Medford, Oregon LDS branch record for that reason alone because the url has both [ and ] in it.

dsammy 00:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Test using Safari on a Mac: I cannot reproduce the problem, although I'm using Safari on a Mac. I noticed the URL listed in the link for the newsletter is different than what is found on FamilySearch. Here's the result of placing the URL (copied from FS) within single brackets, adding a space, then adding FHLC:

FHLC

Test using Firefox on a Mac: The problem cannot be reproduced in Firefox on a Mac either. When the URL from FamilySearch is copied exactly as it appears, then a space is added before the FHLC, the result works just fine: FHLC

Franjensen 16:40, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I see what dsammy is talking about. Here is the exact link (with the http colon slash slash removed):

www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;titleno=1019310&amp;disp=Klamath+Basin+Genealogical+Society+%5Bne%20%20&amp;columns=*,180,0

It appears that the %5B got somewhere interpretted as a '[' and messed up the link (although FamilySearch still found the article).

Here is the above link pasted in using IE6 and again below:

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;titleno=1019310&amp;disp=Klamath+Basin+Genealogical+Society+%5Bne%20%20&amp;columns=*,180,0

Now the same test on Firefox on Linux: Here is the same link pasted and then again below:

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;titleno=1019310&amp;disp=Klamath+Basin+Genealogical+Society+%5Bne%20%20&amp;columns=*,180,0

Hmmm, that worked too. Each time, the %5B did not get interpretted as a '['.

Thomas Lerman 17:04, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Question: Does IE6 and Firefox on Linux have a different URL for the catalog page than what I see on Firefox and Safari on the Mac? Everything beyond the Society+ is added text in the URL than what I see. Franjensen 20:08, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Answer: I cannot think of a reason why the catalog would give you and me different URLs, but is technically possible. I did notice the link to the page in question on this page is slightly different than when you go to the actual page.

Page formatting problem in Firefox.
Another user, Gary Turner, found this page formatting error, it might be in the CSS encoding, he describes it on a portal talk page.

https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Portal_Talk:Ireland

JamesAnderson 23:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Past two meetings
Any notes from last week?

Have the rest of the items from two weeks ago been covered? My radiator is still not replaced, so will not be able to head to the meeting yet.

Saving from an edit
I just noticed that saving from an edit (IE6) shows me that I am being redirected to a page that is not secure. I do not remember seeing that before, Have something changed?