I think you meant to send this to the list? Anyway, On 12/10/05, Ben Wiley Sittler <bsittler@gmail.com> wrote:
it's improper and extremely common – that pattern is used to avoid extra whitespace before and after a form.
The dillo parser is often a bit picky on broken html. The correct way of going about this would be using CSS of course. Your example does render in my version of dillo (which is debian-specific 0.8.5). Not sure why, since I thought they mostly added i18n patches. FWIW I think the previous behaviour is that the parser ignores the </table> and forces a close tag a bit further down the page (what it's doing in my version) while in your version it's forcing the form tag to close. greets, Wim
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:49:47PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote:
I think you meant to send this to the list? Anyway,
On 12/10/05, Ben Wiley Sittler <bsittler@gmail.com> wrote:
it's improper and extremely common ? that pattern is used to avoid extra whitespace before and after a form.
The dillo parser is often a bit picky on broken html. The correct way of going about this would be using CSS of course. Your example does render in my version of dillo (which is debian-specific 0.8.5). Not sure why, since I thought they mostly added i18n patches. FWIW I think the previous behaviour is that the parser ignores the </table> and forces a close tag a bit further down the page (what it's doing in my version) while in your version it's forcing the form tag to close.
greets, Wim
Just for completeness: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/extraspace.html -- Cheers Jorge.-
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:49:47 +0100, Wim De Smet <kromagg@gmail.com> wrote:
it's improper and extremely common – that pattern is used to avoid extra whitespace before and after a form.
one shouldnt make bad html code just to make a browser look better, it the browser is broken, it their fault, not html fault. its things like this that made the web so hard for other browsers
the previous behaviour is that the parser ignores the </table> and forces a close tag a bit further down the page (what it's doing in my version) while in your version it's forcing the form tag to close.
still there is a easy fix... install privoxy and put it to fix broken html, search the bad code and replace it with the correct form, then apply this to the bad webpages (and notify the webmaster also) its not perfect, but dillo shoudnt have all sort of hacks to render bad html, it would grow big and slower and reward bad html writers higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. -- Hermann Goering, Nazi and war criminal, 1883-1946
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