Re: formatting of webpage altered when viewed

Why bother for a website that doesn't pass the html validator?

2006/8/17, Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>:
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> On Friday 11 August 2006 17:29, Jon Wong wrote:
> > <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>I've downloaded
> > amaya</DIV> <DIV class=RTE>When I goto a live link i.e. <A
> > href="http://www.bbc.co.uk">www.bbc.co.uk</A></DIV> <DIV class=RTE>the
> > webpage structure is not what it should be(see screenshot)</DIV> <DIV
> > class=RTE><A
> > href="http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/dl/programme/sample/amayaformat.gif">
> http://ww
> >w.lshtm.ac.uk/dl/programme/sample/amayaformat.gif</A></DIV> <DIV
> > class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
> > <DIV class=RTE>Some of the text become a single column of text rather
> than
> > a paragraph</DIV> <DIV class=RTE>Why is this?</DIV>
> > <DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
> > <DIV class=RTE>Thanks in advance</DIV>
> > <DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
> > <DIV class=RTE>cheers</DIV>
> > <DIV class=RTE>jon</DIV></div></html>
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> We progress slowly on the CSS support and this is a case where default
> widths
> are not correctly interpreted by Amaya.
> But I noted that Amaya detects HTML errors and the page use scripts.
>
> I will investigate more.
>      Irène.
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Received on Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:18:10 UTC