Re: Beta of online dictionary

* 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.

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