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Michele T. - Sep 23, 2002 1:24:33 pm PDT #321 of 10000

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Can I suggest a simple hack instead? How about just appending closing tags to each post [/i] [/a], etc.? Would that work?

Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 1:32:50 pm PDT #322 of 10000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

It should. I've never run into a browser that runs into trouble with extra closing tags. But this many extra closing tags? We might discover an unexpected bug. Also it does not take care of all cases. What if someone leaves two tags open? three? Or course the really simple solution is the one we use. Ask people not leave tags open. When they forget close the tag for them, and remind them so they can edit.

Gudanov - Sep 23, 2002 1:35:55 pm PDT #323 of 10000

Coding and Sleeping

As someone who works with XML, I just cringe at the thought of extra closing tags. Yes, it might work fine in all the browsers, but every time I looked at the board I'd wonder if there were extra ending tags just lurking under the surface of the pretty formatting.

Michele T. - Sep 23, 2002 1:39:23 pm PDT #324 of 10000

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I didn't say it wasn't a hack.

I think there ought to be some more elegant and less computationally intensive way of doing it than either of the solutions presented so far, and if there turns out not to be, my sense of the rightness of the universe will be thwarted.

And if you're looking for extra tags under the surface, highlight the area right below the navigation links but above the text-entry box -- an elegant hack, indeed.

§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 1:42:52 pm PDT #325 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, those aren't tags.

Oddly, Opera 6.04 doesn't have this issue, since it takes the closing of the <p> tag as a block level tag, and closes the inline tags. Just like a </table> will close any open <tr> or <td>.

So can't everyone just upgrade? That's my kinda hack.

Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 2:12:11 pm PDT #326 of 10000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

But apparently Mozilla does not follow this automatic tag closing. Also, not everyone remembers to /p, Also, John said, if someday a true XML compliant browser comes out , the /p won't work anymore, because XML requires the closing of all tags.

billytea - Sep 23, 2002 2:29:01 pm PDT #327 of 10000

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I don't know if this is an obvious question or not, but what does everyone else do (so to speak)? How do they keep their tags in-post?

Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 2:36:00 pm PDT #328 of 10000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

We remember to close our tags. that is for every t b We make sure that somewhere before the post ends there is a t /b

Oh other boards. Good question. Right. Talk amongst yourselves.

§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 3:07:28 pm PDT #329 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Actually, the code puts in a </p> for every two line breaks. So that's taken care of. No need to remember.

Silly browsers.

I know of one board (Bronze Camp) that does something we've been doing -- closing in a later post.

§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 3:44:01 pm PDT #330 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just noticed that WX pages have the following comments at the top:

Interesting.

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