- From: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 03:08:08 -0800 (PST)
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
[Sorry about the double > - in order to reply to this I've had to subscribe then send old messages to my self and finally reply them. I didn't realise the list wouldn't let you post if you weren't subscribed - I've never had any problems with any other W3C mailing lists] Peter Evans wrote: > > Just one (amateurish) comment on a couple of aspects of Matthew > Brealey's list > > of putative bugs. I didn't say they were all bugs - I referred to bugs/suggestions. The character reference stuff is certainly a bug. > > I'm not sure whether or not this is a bug in Tidy. Whether it is or > isn't, my > > mind boggles at the idea of somebody who's clearly no novice running a > utility > > whose results are as radical as Tidy's to overwrite a file without > first making > > a backup. Surely a better way is to make a backup, or, better still, > to avoid > > the -m switch and instead get Tidy to create a second file (which is > what I > > always do). Ideally, yes. But when you have a 600-file website (as with my new site), it can be a little tedious to trawl through each file individually, so I tend to do a for/in for each directory (although some pages I leave as they are - for example, it will drop the following: <div style="width: 200px; height: 200px; background: red"></div> as empty). But I find it necessary to tidy because I write all my HTML by hand, and tend to omit end tags, which isn't a good idea because it can cause Netscape to crash (given: <p style="border: solid thin"> Some text <p style="border: solid thin"> Some text </p> ) , so I instruct Tidy to stick them back in again. ===== ---------------------------------------------------------- From Matthew Brealey (http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet (for law)or http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet/WEBFRAME.HTM (for CSS)) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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