FP2002 scrambles FP98 pages

[Ed Brencovich]

I have a working FP98 page that uses a form, table and cgi script. Some
input validation was enabled in FP98 that resulted in FP98 generating
some Javascript. The generated JavaScript is encapsulated by <!--webbot
BOT="GeneratedScript" PREVIEW=" " startspan --> <script> ...
</script\><!-- webbot BOT="GeneratedScript" endspan --> before the
definition of the form.

I now perform two steps:
1. Load this working page into FP2002
2. Save it without making any changes.

FP2002 shrinks this page from 53.8KB to 40.4KB by:
1. Eliminating the Generated JavaScript and ..
2. Redefining the form to NOT include the table and NOT perform any
input validation and ..
3. Relocating cell contents to other cells with my table and ...
4. Various other painless reformating of HTML.

Not exactly the behaviour that I desired to obtain with this "upgrade".
Short of reworking the webpage in FP2002, has anybody experienced
similar behavior? Is this a known problem that is addressed by a
Service Pack or Hot Fix? Is there an FP2002 option that needs to be
dis/enabled to have FP2002 be backward compatible with FP98 generated
websites?

edb

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Tools | Page Options | HTML and select to preserve existing HTML.

Note: This will not apply to any FP WebBot code, as it will be modified
based on any changes that have been made to the WebBot in the version of FP
that you are using.

It sound like you created a badly structured page in FP98, which did not
really check for valid HTML.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Ok, then you will need to redo the page so that it contains valid HTML.

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[Ed Brencovich]

Already did that. Doesn't help.