[thelist] Garbled style attributes on .asp page

BP Jonsson bpjonsson at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 15:23:49 CDT 2010


Hi,

This is my first post to the list.  If it is OT I hereby
apologize profoundly!  I'm under time pressure and need
urgent help, and don't know where to turn.

I'm required to visit a certain web page with the
(telltale?) name index.asp  The problem is that the newer
content on the page doesn't show up in any browser but
Opera -- and, reportedly, in Internet Explorer -- which
doesn't yet exist for my OS and likely never will! --,
but if I view the page source I see garbled stuff like
below: broken style attributes, with uppercase css
keywords -- is that even permissible? --, missing closing
tags and who knows what lost in between.  There are a
few lines with content text in between such broken tags,
some of which I've copied, but I've replaced all content
text, which doesn't seem broken anyway with the word
"CONTENT" in order to preserve confidentiality.

I suspect something is badly amiss with their CMS --
either the database or the presentation program -- or
perhaps somebody has done some copy-pasting from
another program which misfired?  I'd like to report
this to their webmaster, since I do need to be able to
read the site from my own computer, but I feel I need
to have something helpful to suggest rather than just
complaining.  However, truth to say, I have no real
idea what's going on, only that something is plainly
horribly wrong!  I've tried to google, but since Google
ignores punctuation nothing useful turns up.  I'd be
very thankful if someone can point me towards an
explanation/solution to suggest.  They're clearly
using software I never used on an OS I don't use
anymore!

Apologies if the excerpt below is too long or wholly
inappropriate. I hope it shows up as text rather than
mailers believing it's intended as -- shudder -- HTML
email...

TIA,

/bpj


<table width='100%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'
border='0'><tr><td><FONT face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "
Arial?,?sans-serif??><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: " Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN
Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: " Arial?,?sans-serif??><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "
Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN
Arial?,?sans-serif??><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT
face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "
Arial?,?sans-serif??><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=3>

*** I've snipped several essentially identical lines here... ***

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT:
normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "
Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;
mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: SV;
mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">CONTENT<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><BR></B></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt;
FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;
mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: SV;
mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;
mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">CONTENT<BR></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language: SV; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA">CONTENT<BR><BR><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">CONTENT<BR></B>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT<BR><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CONTENT</I><BR><BR><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">CONTENT<BR></B>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT<BR><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">CONTENT</I></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT:
normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "
Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;
mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: SV;
mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>CONTENT</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT:
normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "
Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;
mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: SV;
mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA"></SPAN>CONTENT<BR><STRONG><FONT
size=3>CONTENT</FONT><BR></STRONG><FONT
class=brodtext>CONTENT<STRONG>CONTENT</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT:
normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "
Arial?,?sans-serif??><SPAN>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT<BR>CONTENT</SPAN></SPAN></P>


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