Re: the -m switch (was: Bugs/suggestions)

How do I stop these email messages?

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: the -m switch (was: Bugs/suggestions)


> [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.
>
>
>
> =====
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> >From Matthew Brealey (http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet (for law)or
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Received on Friday, 24 March 2000 12:46:33 UTC