Re: [Edbrowse-dev] tidy script bug

Re: [Edbrowse-dev] tidy script bug

[Kevin Carhart]

Thanks Karl.  Yes, there are small kludges discussed in threads, such as 
various kinds of escaping.  But all roads lead back to the Tidy5 
developers, namely Geoff & Jim.  And they have talked about this recently. 
Just on July 13, Geoff said "maybe it is time to try to do 
something about this long outstanding problem in scripts..."

There are currently only 8 open issues on the tidy5 project, and this is 
one of them.  The thread can be found at,
https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/65

Geoff even submitted a patch about this way back in 2007.  A user called 
NoNoNo asked about it again in 2012 and submitted his own patch.  Then it 
was picked up again in 2015!

This has also been discussed on stack overflow and other boards, but I 
think bringing it up with Geoff McLane would be the way to go.

I can send the links I found, if anyone wants to review what kinds of 
escaping hacks people are suggesting.  I don't think they help us.. It 
seemed like things that would be useful in a smaller and more colloquial 
context.  Like if someone was hand-writing their own home page and wanted 
it to pass Tidy validation, maybe you could get away with throwing in 
some backslashes or escape-encoding a line.  But we don't want to do 
those tricks.

thanks
Kevin





On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Karl Dahlke wrote:

> Kevin, let us know if your research uncovers something regarding this
> script in script bug, and assuming it does not yield a solution,
> which I think it won't since the bug is still there,
> then perhaps Chris you should report it to the tidy team
> and see if they are on board with fixing it.
> I could probably preprocess the html text to get around it,
> but that's like the last thing I'd want to do.
>
> Karl Dahlke
>

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