On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Miles O'Neal wrote: > Thomas Dickey said... > | > |Last week I noticed one odd thing that wasn't caused by IZ's table > |patches. This page uses blockquote to depict an inline quote of email > |message: > | > | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115416 > | > |Other browsers treat this use of <blockquote> something like <pre>. > |Lynx wraps it. I don't see a <pre> block around the text. > |But I'm not able to see this from the w3c documentation. > > Actually, the BLOCKQUOTE tags *are* inside > PRE tags. > > Look right after: > > <h2>Message received at [EMAIL PROTECTED]:</h2> > > There's a PRE tag, the email headers, an A tag, the text > "Here's a response from the upstream maintainer of xterm.", > the message signatire, another A tag, BLOCKQUOTE, then the > quoted text.
duh. I looked at the mess, had trouble reading it and ran it through tidy, which added a </pre>. Notwithstanding tidy's helpfulness, I'm inclined to regard this as a lynx bug. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
