manual/misc/descriptors.html and manual/vhosts-in-depth.html (no names, Dean... <g>) like closing their <p> tags without opening them. Am I crazy or is that bogus? Yes, yes, it makes Netscape display it in a pretty way you like but...
Posted by Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com>.
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote: > You get the same effect by changing </p> to <p>. It's a bogus tag in my > opinion. I'm surprised that it's only my files that do it, I swear I saw > it elsewhere. Nope, its only you. <g> Ok, it could be somewhere else too that I haven't got to with weblint yet... Fix committed. > > Dean > > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Marc Slemko wrote: > > > manual/misc/descriptors.html and manual/vhosts-in-depth.html (no names, > > Dean... <g>) like closing their <p> tags without opening them. Am I crazy > > or is that bogus? > > > > Yes, yes, it makes Netscape display it in a pretty way you like but... > > > > >
Posted by Pieter Nagel <pi...@epiuse.co.za>.
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Alexei Kosut wrote:
> You get the same effect by changing </p> to <p>. It's a bogus tag in my
> opinion. I'm surprised that it's only my files that do it, I swear I saw
> it elsewhere.
As far as I know, an HTML parser is *supposed* to be able to infer
misssing tags if their ommision is unambiguous - this is why pages
with the <HTML> or <HEAD> or <BODY> tags ommited still work.
I think this type of behaviour is specced at the SGML level and is
therefore not readily apparent from reading the HTML spec alone.
Precisely *what* "unambiguous" means, I don't know. I suppose if you
read the SGML DTD grammar for HTML, it'll boil down to infering the
missing <P> tag at the end of the previous paragraph, </H1>, </H2>
etc. - there are boundaries a <P>...</P> pair can't cross.
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Posted by Alexei Kosut <ak...@organic.com>.
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote: > You get the same effect by changing </p> to <p>. It's a bogus tag in my > opinion. I'm surprised that it's only my files that do it, I swear I saw > it elsewhere. Well, a lot of files use </p>. I know I like it (for several reasons), but I always make sure I put a <p> in there too... it's possible someone else edited some files that had a <p></p> pair, and accidentally removed the <p>s. -- Alexei Kosut <ak...@organic.com>
Posted by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>.
You get the same effect by changing </p> to <p>. It's a bogus tag in my opinion. I'm surprised that it's only my files that do it, I swear I saw it elsewhere. Dean On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Marc Slemko wrote: > manual/misc/descriptors.html and manual/vhosts-in-depth.html (no names, > Dean... <g>) like closing their <p> tags without opening them. Am I crazy > or is that bogus? > > Yes, yes, it makes Netscape display it in a pretty way you like but... > >