[Zope] Bizarre, Frustrating Browser-Specific Behavior?

[Richard Wesley]

At 9:28 PM -0700 7/23/02, Dan Shafer wrote:
>I have been using Zope part-time now for almost a year. I've built 
>some simple stuff and some moderately complex stuff. Over that time, 
>I've kept notes about things I didn't understand, deleting those 
>notes as I've learned more (mostly from this list).
>
>But now I'm just at a point where I have to make a decision whether 
>to make a *big* commitment to Zope over the next year or so on 
>behalf of my two biggest clients and I'm experiencing some weirdness 
>that gives me a bit of pause. I'm really looking here for an 
>indication whether these are things others have encountered as well 
>or whether there might be something I'm either doing wrong or not 
>understanding.
>
>1. Working in IE5 on Macintosh OS X, I often encounter what look for 
>all the world like corrupted or scrambled files. Python Script 
>objects appear particularly vulnerable, but I've seen this with DTML 
>docs and methods as well. The symptom is that some number of letters 
>at the beginning of the file appear to be replaced by stray and 
>often unprintable characters. When this happens, the rest of the 
>file becomes scrambled and sometimes unreadable, always cut off 
>before it ends. I can switch to Windows at that point, e.g., and 
>open the same file, and all looks normal.

Editing anything in a browser sucks.  Get BBEdit:  It doesn't suck.

I know it costs money, but man is it worth it.

- rmgw

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