* [Edbrowse-dev] nested anchors
@ 2015-10-01 10:40 Karl Dahlke
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From: Karl Dahlke @ 2015-10-01 10:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ubuntu, Edbrowse-dev
Here is a behavior of tidy that is not terrible,
but a bit confusing.
I ran into html like this today.
<body>
<a href=www.edbrowse.org>link1
<a href=www.edbrowse.org>link2
<a href=www.edbrowse.org>link3
</body>
Edbrowse renders this as nested hyperlinks
{link1 {link2 {link3}}}
This works, as long as you remember that a link is marked by open brace,
not close brace or the text in between.
but it really should render as
{link1} {link2} {link3}
The reason is that the second <A> tag does not close off the first.
They are all closed off at the end.
If an early anchor happens to miss its </a> tag,
then the entire document, the entire web page, could be enclosed in the hyperlink.
Karl Dahlke
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* [Edbrowse-dev] nested anchors
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@ 2015-10-01 16:56 ` Karl Dahlke
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From: Karl Dahlke @ 2015-10-01 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ubuntu; +Cc: Edbrowse-dev
Wel as I say, this one isn't vital,
and as you say, likely edbrowse rendering could turn
nested anchors into serial anchors if we wished.
I think it is a very rare situation and probably not worth a lot of time and effort.
Karl Dahlke
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