jn,
Yes, I understand what going on. But, if you're going to put up HTML, you
want it to display correctly in any browser. Somebody needs to convert those
HTML tags to > and < and this would solve the "mysterious" behaviour.
As an end user, I shouldn't have to put up with this.
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 4:32 PM
Subject: [REBOL] rebol.org purpose (was "archive" ) Re:(4)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I'm viewing that web page under IE 5.01 and right in the middle of
> > the HTML text for the source code of wiki is a form to fill out with
> > a submit button. Does any one else get this?
> >
>
> Of course!
>
> >
> > Seems like pretty strange (if not alien) behavior to me. Or could
> > it be a security hole in my browser?
> >
>
> PMJI, but what's happening is that the page in question is mostly
> just a REBOL source file wrapped in <pre>...</pre> tags. However,
> the REBOL source itself contains HTML tags (inside strings, but
> that doesn't matter at this point).
>
> Since your browser knows about HTML but doesn't know about REBOL,
> it's just trying to do what it normally does when it sees tags;
> this produces the surprising ;-) layout you remarked on.
>
> If you want to see the REBOL source more easily, just do
> "View/Page Source". You can also do "File/Save As..." and then
> look at the newly-created file with Your Favorite Text Editor.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -jn-
>
