- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 21:26:16 -0800
- To: "Scott E. Preece" <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Scott E. Preece wrote: > *Any* behavior in the face or erroneous markup is guessing. If the > markup was: > <TT>some</I>text and <TT>some more</TT> > the guess you suggest would presumably result in the whole string being > in TT, where it would appear, to me, that the author did not intend > that. Throwing back your own retort - how much time should it spend > guessing what the extra <TT> means? None, IMO. So far as I know, TT and I are not accumulative. The second <TT> is like turning on a switch that's already on -- no change. Likewise, </I> is the off switch for italic. If it's already off, ignore it. If possible (and it is), I would expect parts of this sentence to be rendered as <I>italic proportional <TT>italic monospaced and </I> regular monospaced</TT>. Is NSN "guessing" I made a mistake when it renders everything from <I> to </TT> in italic proportional? David Perrell
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