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Re: Beta of online dictionary

From:David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
Date:Thursday, October 25, 2007, 19:11
All clear on Safari, now! Works like a
charm!��-David�*******************************************************************�"A
male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Oct 25, 2007, at 6∞23 AM,
taliesin the storyteller wrote:��> * David J. Peterson said on 2007-10-23
21:00:01 +0200�>> As I said before, I'm very excited about this dictionary,
and�>> am glad to see it's online. Just a couple comments:�>>�>> (1) For
whatever reason, it doesn't work in Safari (Mac OS X�>> 10.4.10). The initial
form shows up, but nothing else shows�>> up on the page.�>�> Safari uses
the same html engine as konqueror (or: thy're still�> pretty much the same)
and it is now working in konqueror.�> Longwinded explanation of the reason
for the problem follows:�>�> In HTML, tags can't overlap, so you can't
have�>�> <foo>some text <bar>more text</foo> last text</bar>�>�> If
this happens, the browser is supposed to also close the�> <bar>-tag when it
hits the </foo>-tag and disregard the final�> </bar>, leading to
this:�>�> <foo>some text <bar>more text</bar></foo> last text�>�> When
the browser doesn't do this, strange things happen!�>�> If you forget to
close a tag the same thing is supposed to�> happen:�>�> <foo>some text
<bar>more text</foo> last text�>�> Becomes:�>�> <foo>some text
<bar>more text</bar></foo> last text�>�> Browsers screw this up but not in
the same way... konqueror�> failed to close a <select>. Firefox fails to deal
with <div>s�> the same way ;)�>�>�> t.�