[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: patch for #776 - khtmlw bug fixed
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-03-21 18:21:05
[Download RAW message or body]

> >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...

-- 
David FAURE
david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org
http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html 
KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]