Re: Possible Tidy improvements from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2004-02-09 (html-tidy@w3.org from January to March 2004)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:43:15 +0100
To: cyril2@mail.ru
Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <402e9bce.515445311@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Cyril wrote:
>Netscape Editor (from Netscape Navigator Version 3.0 Gold package)
>converts my "&mdash;" into "&amp;mdash;". How can Tidy be programmed to
>correct this substitution if any?

There is no config option to achieve this.

>So, could Tidy be programmed to insert 'border="0"' attribute into
>"<table>" tag when or where this attribute is omitted. It is because of
>the same Netscape Editor again. The Editor eats 'border="0"' attributes
>(with value "0").

There is no config option to achieve this.

>From http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ : "Tidy supports a small set
>of character encoding options. The default is ASCII, which makes it easy
>to edit markup in regular text editors." So, Tidy will not convert
>Windows cp1251 and Windows cp1253 pages into UTF-8 pages in future?

We are working on that, but note that there are many other tools for
this task, uconv, iconv, piconv, recode, ...

Received on Monday, 9 February 2004 09:43:22 UTC