Re: anchors with the same name.
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 21:58:16 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: anchors with the same name.
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Lou Montulli writes:
> > ... In the file http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/SDGPeople.html,
> > the lists get indented too far after QUINCEY KOZIOL entry because of a
> > missing </UL> in his entry. My list handling code does this too -
> > any ideas on how to detect it? Xmosaic formats the list just fine.
> > *sigh* My life would be so much simpler if Xmosaic wasn't so
> > accomodating of bad HTML :)
>
> I Agree completely!! This is my official plee for marc and eric to
> stop supporting such bad html. Some of the things they have done
> I agree have usefulness, but there is TOO much tolorance for other
> things that should never be tolarated.
We didn't intend to support the HTML in question.....
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</ul
<h3>Daniel LaLiberte</h3>
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The Mosaic parser is simply looking at this like so:
</ul <h3>
The second < is disregarded since it's looking for a > to close the
tag; the h3 (or possibly <h3; I'm not sure which exactly) is
considered an attribute of the /ul tag; the result is that it's saying
"OK, the list is closed and I'm ignoring this extra 'h3' attribute
that I don't understand".
This is just the way our parser works -- not our way of supporting bad
HTML.
Marc