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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: patch for #776 - khtmlw bug fixed
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-03-21 19:12:16
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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, David Faure wrote:

> > >I added the check for the trailing ';' that one can expect in an entity.
> > >The ';' was assumed, before, hence the problem with such URLs as the ones in the
> > >bug report, because &nu and &ge are known entities.
> > >
> > >Are there HTML pages that don't provide the trailing ';' for entities ? The 
> > >patch would break the displaying of such entities, but as it's bad HTML anyway...
> 
> > there are some pages not using the trailing ';', so it'll probably "break some
> > broken pages"..., but I think we should apply it anyway. 
> > First of all, it's better to have one char entity displayed wrongly than a
> > link, that doesn't work, and second of all, if web page authors are using
> > broken html, it's moslty their own fault, if the page is not displayed
> > correctly. We can't account for every bad habit people have, when composing web
> > pages...
> 
> Hi Lars.
> 
> I agree with you, but I'm afraid of the number of pages this would break.
> http://www.ypeu.net, for instance, (after selecting a language)
> displays "&nbsp" all over the pages.
> 
> (I wrote to that site, BTW.)
> 
> I'm afraid more pages use broken entities than links containing a query part...

Lynx already is broken on them, and I think Navigator does break when you
have &nbspmoretext but does allow &nbsp moretext (or of course the
prope &nbsp;moretext...

- alex

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