Re: safari rendering bug: site display not correct

In article <41jp9pF1fdigqU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Markus Dehmann <markus.dehmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I produced this little mini example that shows the problem:
>
> <html><body>
> <div><p>plain<b>bold</p></div>
> <div><p></b>plain</p></div>
> </body></html>
>
> The second "plain" is not plain in safari, but it is in firefox and opera.

The problem there is not Safari, it's your HTML. Your tags are not
nested properly, so your HTML is not valid. Most browsers try to be
flexible in what they accept, but here the error is clearly your own,
and you cannot reasonably expect a specific rendering.

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