Re: safari rendering bug: site display not correct

In article <NOSPAmar2005-F9EDDB.13040630122005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Eric Lindsay <NOSPAmar2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks like it may be a general parsing problem in the tag soup parser.
> I tried it with the inline font style elements bold, underline and the
> inline phrase element emphasis, none of which are actually supposed to
> be used outside the block element they occur within.
>
> Personally I would have thought all browsers should stop displaying them
> once the end of the enclosing block element (such as a paragraph) was
> reached. However I know that many web pages have done things like put a
> single bold tag around multiple paragraphs. So I can see why Safari
> (and other browsers) don't just stop doing bold when they get to a new
> paragraph. Looks like Safari loses track of non-closed inline elements
> when it reaches a new div.

Huh? If you want to close the font style, you have to close the font
style, something about "properly nested" comes to mind.

There is no automatic closure, either in life or in HTML.
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"I thought I was the last son of Krypton,
but you people keep popping up." -- Clark Kent

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