- From: ewitness - Ben Fowler <bfowler@ewitness.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:34:00 +0000
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
At 1:24 pm +1300 7/2/02, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: >"Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > OK, you tell me where to put the > in this: > > <td nowrap is a deprecated attribute for table data cell elements ... > >A simple rule works reasonably well: > Start with <tag > while the next tokens are > <word> = (any word) > OR <word> (only if word is a known single-enumeration-value > attribute name) > process next attribute > If /> process empty tag, else > if > process start tag, else > insert > and process start tag. > >The example would become > > <td nowrap> is a deprecated attribute for table data cell elements ... > ^ >I _think_ the complete list of known single-enumeration-value attributes is > checked, compact, declare, defer, disabled, ismap, multiple, nohref, > noresize, noshade, nowrap, readonly, selected. >It's not a long list. If someone wants to add words to this list for the >sake of their own extra tags, they should declare them explicitly. > >Consider the following example: > <html><body> > <table> > <tr> > <td nowrap is a deprecated attribute for table data cell elements > <tr> > <td compact is not deprecated at all > </table> > </body></html> >In Netscape 4.7, that displays as a blank page. >Adopting this little rule, we get > <html><body> > <table> > <tr> > <td nowrap> is a deprecated attribute for table data cell elements > <tr> > <td compact> is not deprecated at all > </table> > </body></html> >which is admittedly missing two words of intended text from the display, >but that's a *huge* improvement over missing _everything_! I can't find anything to snip. Both Mozilla and iCAB display the same as your browser does. (Of course Tidy should close <td> and <tr> tags). I have an objection to the process that generates <td compact> from the input you gave. IMHO, Tidy should adopt a "first do no harm" rule. In other words, it should not attempt a partial repair of elements that it does not fully understand. In my view, because it is impossible to determine whether the author intended <td nowrap="nowrap"> or nowrap is a deprecated attribute for table data cell elements Tidy should do nothing. I appreciate that there is a case for changing to <td>, and expecting the author to re-check the page in an HTML editor or browser, but I personally would not do it. The best that Tidy could do is log the problem. (Or perhaps add a comment). Ben.
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