ita, I am still working on the CVS repository, but I've had a death in my family this week (details coming on Monday in Beep Me), so I'm woefully behind.

Many apologies; I'll get back to this as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience.

Don't apologize, Karl, and certainly not to me. I'm the biggest bottleneck out there.

Pay attention to your life and your family, and we'll be here when you get back. Take care.

John -- not just href. Someone can do the same with a target='new". In fact, a t font color='red" is a very unfriendly thing.

Hmmm... Is there any reason a poster would use single quotes embedded within double quotes (or vice versa), inside of a tag (i.e. inside of a < > pair)?

Is there any reason a poster would use single quotes embedded within double quotes (or vice versa), inside of a tag

The only reason to do that would be in a TITLE or ALT attribute,

TITLE="Commentary on 'Hush' by Joss"

which I can't see people using very much, or in JavaScript, where you need to do things like

onmouseover="alert('hello world')"

but we've specifically outlawed that by regex.

Oh, and if you're inline-stylesheeting you might want to do

style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"

for font names with spaces.

not just href

Didn't think of that. It's just unbroken attributes of all kinds isn't it? Though the link tag causes the worst problems.

EDIT: full HTML compatibilitycakes, in the example above, you shouldn't put quotes inside quotes, you should use the entity code for quotes, so you'd put

TITLE="Commentary on &apos;Hush&apos; by Joss"

or

TITLE='Commentary on &quot;Hush&quot; by Joss'

and the use of double quotes is more correct for backward compatibility. I can't quote chapter and verse but some browsers only like double quotes.

I don't think link tags cause worse havoc than any other tag where mismatched quotes are concerned. In all cases, they cause a (potentially) large chunk of html to be ignored by the browser.

I'm no regex expert so I've no idea if this is doable, but is there a way to look inside every tag that takes parameters (like a href or font) and "close" every "open" single or double quote? It wouldn't be too different from what John H has already done with open tags, would it?

I don't think link tags cause worse havoc than any other tag where mismatched quotes are concerned.

I was thinking of that unable-to-edit, ita-had-to-get-under-the-hood thing. Has that been fixed?

That's the same havoc -- doesn't matter which tag broke it. The key difference is if you open with a ' or a " -- affects where it gets closed.

Jon's coded the fix. I haven't implemented it yet.

Yeah, I fixed that. That happened because the t form tags got caught inside the open quoted mess. I moved the tags to points further up and down the page. Probelem Sol-ved.

Jon's coded the fix. I haven't implemented it yet.

Speaking of which (and I don't mean to sound like I'm harassing you. Really), how's the implementation going for that all all the other mods?

I'm sifting them out one by one and looking at them that way, Jon. I want to make sure there's no cross-pollination of weirdness.

Not suggesting for a moment that we don't all write perfect code the first time, or anything.

And then I have to check they don't conflict with any of the changes I implemented in the meanwhile.