Re: Mozilla's rendering of slightly buggy HTML

[Clarence (Andreas M. Schneider)]

Dave Huang wrote:
> 
> Seems to me that Mozilla can be a bit too picky about HTML... in
> particular, see http://www.azeotrope.org/~khym/moztest.html
> It's a bunch of lines like:
> <font size=2>something<br>
> <font size=2>something else<br>
> etc...
> 
> There are 200 lines like that, but Mozilla only shows the first 196. If
> I fix it so that the <font> tag is properly closed (or get rid of the <font>
> tag), everything works fine.
> 
> I'm guessing all the unclosed <font>s are causing some stack to fill, and
> Mozilla gives up rendering the rest of the page? Anyways, I think it'd be
> nice if Mozilla could handle this, although I have no idea how hard it'd
> be to do. IE can do it ;)

AIUI HTML 4 limits the nesting level of tags to 100,
Mozilla handles up to 200 (but only 75 for Mac).

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/htmlparser/src/CNavDTD.cpp#1339

Clarence