- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 00:38:52 +0200 (MET)
- To: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, "'David Perrell'" <davidp@earthlink.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Oct 6, 2:59pm, Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote: > Unfortunately (and believe me, I do mean "unfortunately"), legacy > rendering disagrees with you quite strongly. Try loading this in any > version of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer: > > <B>This is bold. > <TABLE><TR><TD> > This is not bold. > </TD></TR> > </TABLE> > This is bold again. > </B> OK, so these browsers do error correction on a document which has a block level element inside a phrase level element, and internally generate <B>This is bold.</b> <TABLE><TR><TD> This is not bold. </TD></TR> </TABLE> <b>This is bold again.</B> Fine. But, since TABLE is not a child of B, naturally the table is not in bold. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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