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John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:37:21 pm PDT #337 of 10000

But what about Gar's suggestion that the tags be counted and forced closed? I don't love the cycles, but ...

I think that's in the Doomed To Failure box too. Really you'd have to use a proper HTML parsing module, and even they can't always pinpoint the moment that Good HTML Goes Bad, just sign off that it is actually good.

What the hell does WX do?

I think it's just an accident that the code they use for the message display is different to ours (for instance, if an unclosed link tag is inside a TD, then there's more chance the browser will close it off than if it's just in a P) and that people don't notice the odd error there, or that they do, and don't feel they can do anything about it.

Let's experiment at little, shall we?

§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 4:41:27 pm PDT #338 of 10000

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

Hmm. PF closed my unclosed tags for me.

John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:41:32 pm PDT #339 of 10000

This is a post containing an unclosed font tag:

and the text from here on is pink...

edit by ita: Not any more, you bad man!

John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:43:05 pm PDT #340 of 10000

OK so it's pink for the rest of that table cell in my browser, i.e. the

To post a message, compose your text in the box below, then click on Post Message.

is not pink because the post area is one table cell, but the posting box and instructions are outside that cell and presumably the whole table as well.

Now I'm going to post with an unclosed link tag:

Front Page Of Buffistas dot Org

John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:45:35 pm PDT #341 of 10000

And again, the linkiness extends for the rest of the pos (but doesn't over-write the

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links) but it doesn't extend down to the posting box.

Again, it's my mileage, so it may vary, but I'm on IE5 on Mac.

Theodosia - Sep 23, 2002 4:46:20 pm PDT #342 of 10000

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

It's working well in Opera on a Mac.

John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:46:32 pm PDT #343 of 10000

Unclosed B tag:

Text on this page bold, or what?

P.M. Marc - Sep 23, 2002 4:46:59 pm PDT #344 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Pink as Msbelle's plates here.

Bold now.

John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:47:00 pm PDT #345 of 10000

Test to see if later posts are bold

John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:48:23 pm PDT #346 of 10000

I make a preliminary diagnosis that it's because all posts on WX were in their own TD and here all posts are in Ps inside one big TD that extends for the whole of the post area.

WX was just lucky.

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