Re: HTML whine

2002-04-03 Thread Chas Owens
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 20:26, Tagore Smith wrote: > Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > > > Closing HTML tags is part of the specification, i.e. > > not optional for syntactically correct HTML. > > > > Such HTML only works with most browsers due to the > > proliferation of badly coded HTML. If it wasn't >

Re: HTML whine

2002-04-02 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 05:26 , Tagore Smith wrote: [..] > Not to nitpick (but I'm going to anyway :) ), but closing some tags (like > p) > is optional in all versions of HTML based on SGML. [..] except of course the versions of the HTML dtd's that mandate it and for which .. given th

Re: HTML whine

2002-04-02 Thread Tagore Smith
Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > Closing HTML tags is part of the specification, i.e. > not optional for syntactically correct HTML. > > Such HTML only works with most browsers due to the > proliferation of badly coded HTML. If it wasn't > for that, then browsers wouldn't have such a hard > time parsi

Re: HTML whine

2002-04-02 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> > while ( my($first, @full_list)=$list_tbl->fetchrow){ > > print ""$first; > > } > > technically I LIKE the answer, but PLEASE close it!!! > > print "" . $first . "" ; > > the more of these that we get in the habit of making > kosher - the better. Closing HTML tags is part of the s