FAQ: Problems with Harry Fearnley's "Go/Baduk/WeiQi Bookmarks/Favourites"

What the Bookmarks are, and what they are not

My Bookmarks are my everday, working, bookmarks (as used by Netscape). The descriptions that are provided for the links are usually what the owner of the page supplies as the contents of the HTML tag <TITLE> ... </TITLE> field. Occasionally, I have changed this if it seemed necessary.

Categories, and "Star" Ratings: The categories that I use make some sense to me, but I am prepared to change them if it will help lots of other people. If you find something in the wrong category, please tell me -- thanks. The Star ratings -- [***], [**], [*] -- are fairly arbitrary, and reflect my prejudices! I have not been systematic in providing Star ratings.

Avoiding duplication, and out-of-date links: I check many of the links, by hand, about once a year -- I really need to do this automatically -- can anyone help with a tool to do this? (I use Netscape 6 -- probably, Netscape 7 soon).

Known problems -- some solutions sought

• Table of Contents: I do not provide a table of contents. This is because of the way that Netscape handles the Bookmarks file. If you edit the Netscape Bookmarks file to provide internal "anchors", Netscape may display them as text when you are using the file as real bookmarks. If you avoid this problem, then Netscape simply removes them when it next saves the bookmarks file (e.g. when you exit Netscape!)
• Displaying CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), French, and other non-English fonts: Sorry! Again, I do not know a simple solution to this. The file that I supply uses "charset=UTF-8". Some people believe that this should avoid all problems with other European fonts -- apparently not! I notice that a (very) few links have text in CJK which does display OK. I have no idea why this is. If you have a solution to this problem, and which will not make much extra work for me, I will try and implement it -- thank you.

Still got problems? Offering help? ...

Please send an email to the bookmarks maintainer (Harry Fearnley) at bookmarks@NOSPAMgoban.demon.co.uk (sorry! -- remove "NOSPAM")