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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: khtmlw problem : #350 : missing entry fields
From:       Lars Knoll <knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-01-25 17:33:17
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>Lars Knoll wrote:
>> This yes. One problem might be, that they use the following construts for
>> defining the form:
>> <table>
>> <tr><td>...</td></tr>
>> <form ...><input type=hidden>
>> <tr><td><input name=login ...></td></tr>...
>> </table>
>> 
>> So the form element is not part of any table row or column. I thought
>> khtmlw did handle this now, but maybe there is still some sort of
>> problem. If khtmlw ignores the form tag, it'll also ignore all 
>> following input tags (since the actual form will be equal to 0 then).
>
>I think khtml handles it (you will know better) but I don't think
>khtmlw will. We had a bugreport some time ago from someone who
>only closed table rows but did not open them. I haven't fixed that
>because it is obviously bad html.
khtml shuld be able to handle it. It's difficult to test at the moment though,
since forms are horribly broken there...
>
>This bugreport is actually not much different. If yahoo wishes to
>use invalid HTML they are on their own. The HTML 4.0 DTD does not
>allow a form-tag instead of a TR tag and the TR start-tag is mandatory. 
In principle yes. One argument speaking for them is perhaps, that neither the
<form> nor the  <input type=hidden ...> tags produce any visible output. So in
principle they don't disturb the table stuff. But I agree, it's bad HTML.

>
>Better ask them to fix their HTML. IMHO you can close the bug-report.
Yes. At least we should wait 'till after 1.1 with fixing (or better working
around) it.

Cheers,
Lars

>"Dear EGCS developers, would you please fix this bug? 
> I know that the code I try to compile is not valid C, 
> but my Commodore64 did compile it without complaining!"
:-)))

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