From kfm-devel  Sun Jul 29 11:48:10 2001
From: Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 11:48:10 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: post 2.2 fun?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=99640757517509

Hi, 

it seems like our idea of priority tables for irregular nested tags don't 
fit for all cases of HTML. like: 

<pre><font size=7>both</pre>after /pre</font>after /font

as you can see, these tags are independently opened and closed, so you get a 
"mixture" in the rendering. you can change the order and add tags however 
you like you will never get "our" behaviour. only </td> cleans the mess up. 

The same applies to <a>, <center>,<div>,<ul> and quite a few other 
tags as well. 

This fits very well in our hacks for <font> in combination with <table>, we 
just need a more generic solution now if we want to be able to render those 
sites like in the other browsers. Especially as <A> and <FONT> is affected, 
which can screw a page seriously up, I think its important enough to get 
these constructs right (its not a problem in the renderer, just the parser 
is too dumb). 

IMHO adding support for this can even improve performance, as the 
render-tree becomes less cluttered and nested and we need a lot less 
different classes in the HTML*Impl tree. 

Something for post 2.2 to figure out ? Or rather declare it as broken and 
forget ?


Dirk