Homebrew Perl CMS with gzip compression... pls test!

[Stone-D]

Could folks check these pages for compatibility with various browsers, except for IE for which I've disabled gzip?

http://stone-d.dyndns.org:88/cms/index.pl (Framed)

http://stone-d.dyndns.org:88/cms/index.pl?IDXBody (Main Frame)
http://stone-d.dyndns.org:88/cms/index.pl?SideBar (Panel Frame)

HTML and CSS content are compressed for Opera, Moz/Gecko, Safari. If you're on IE and you spoof pretending to be one of them, you'll most likely get a pageful of binary cack. Unspoofed, the pages are not compressed.
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[iNaNimAtE]

Tried it in Mozilla, and it looks like it works.
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[olly86]

Opera = pass :D
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[Foxified]

netscape 4.7 + = pass

Lynx browser= failed :(

safari (apple browser) = passed with flying colors.
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[Stone-D]

Cheers guys. glad about safari - didn't test it, just a stab in the dark that it would work. ;)

As for lynx, hmm. Downloading now as I type. The site doesn't look optimum in Opera's text-browser emulation mode, so I've been meaning to grab that for a while now to see what I can do about it.

I'm concurrently developing this personal page together with a secure page for company use for accessing DB queries. The gzip tests have been a total success for that... not only for improving connections on modems, but also in getting employees to switch browsers away from IE. :D

DB queries during this test phase can run up to several megs per page, which is where gzip is such a boon :

Compressed : 86421 bytes. Uncompressed : 1796626 bytes.

lol.

BTW, if anyone's wondering how I got that compression data to show up at the bottom of a gzipped page, don't send a Content-Length header.
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[Stone-D]

Right, I think I've fixed everything.

Please point your browsers to http://stone-d.dyndns.org/

Lynx users may need to use http://stone-d.dyndns.org:88/ - this is because mailtraq is virtual-hosting two abyss servers until abyss comes out of beta. Mailtraq is sending HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanenty notice after I send the "Location: " header, but with Lynx the program seems to just freeze up.

But, then again, I only installed lynx this afternoon, so I'm probably missing something. 2.8.5rel1, win32.

For Lynx, you don't get the panel on the left. Not a biggy, as explained in my compatibility page. Otherwise, it seems to be working nicely!

But that's on my comp, so, please guys, testy testy? :)

At the bottom of most pages, there is this string :

SD-CMS : v0.? | Gzip Status : ? | Page Hits : ?

SD-CMS is my interim name for my scripts. That's the version number.

Gzip status will say one of "Disabled", "HTML" or "HTML/CSS/JS", indicating what is being compressed for your browser. If you're not using IE and its disabled AND you know it supports it, plz let me know, eh? :) At the moment, only Opera and Safari are enjoying full compression. Safari is a guess - does it work okay with this? I disabled Mozilla for JS/CSS because, althought it supports it, occasionally it seems to give up transfering the data for JS or CSS and shows the page without the benefit of that file. With the sidebar, this either results in no CSS or nothing in the combo boxes. But, not always. Hmmm.

Page Hits shows, err, page hits for every page that isn't a frame page, a javascript or a css file. IP caching is enforced, so if you immediately hit refresh, it won't update. BUT if you do so after someone else goes in, then it will update. It only tracks the last known IP. Based off mcount 3.0 by Matt Riffle.

Oops, seem to have rambled a bit. Sorry. :P
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[iNaNimAtE]

Ok, I think the Lynx was just a joke, but if you really want to know, I tried it in Lynx and it looked good (or whatever good can mean).
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[Stone-D]

LOL. Joke or no, its good to hear. Cheers for the test.

My end goal is to have the site usable on all modern devices, including mobile phones in particular. I already check my pages with Opera's built-sin "Small Screen" mode (I always suggest that people get phones compatible with Opera) and it looks great, like an RSS feed actually.

Having it look good in Lynx half-ensures that A) it will be viable in pretty much any browser and B) I won't get people emailing me with accessibility issues.

Ya see, I'm a lazy bast. My homepage and my company's internal site uses the same code - css, js, etc.

Now all that I need to do is fill it with content. LOL. ;)
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[iNaNimAtE]

[Stone-D]

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[iNaNimAtE]

Yes, that sounds like something you should most definitely be concerned about.

Especially the IE 2.
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[Stone-D]

[Foxified]

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[Stone-D]

Unintentional, Foxified. Twas an experiment and I simply forgot to replace the binaries with the originals.

Fixed now. =)
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