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Re: [PATCH] makeinfo @multitable html output fix


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [PATCH] makeinfo @multitable html output fix
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:45:12 +0200 (IST)

On 20 Dec 2000, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > Sure.  Although I guess that unknown parameters in tags are simply
> > > ignored by any sane browser?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, there are too many insane browsers out there, and it's not 
> > practical to ignore them.
> 
> Well, if you know of browsers that don't handle html-3.2, and break on
> parameters that they don't know, I guess that someone would have to
> test them all, then?

Someone already have--the HTML output produced by makeinfo is viewed on 
many sites by all the popular browsers, and bugs are reported.  In 
addition, the output for several large Texinfo manuals was previewed with 
many versions of many browsers during the pretest of Texinfo 4.0.

> Although I applaud your concern for supporting less regular browsers
> and not introducing bugs, it doesn't make much sense to me to let this
> delay an obvious fix for a known bug for most used browsers.

You only named browsers widely used on Unix and GNU/Linux platforms.  
These are not the only games in town.

But I didn't say that the change you suggested will break some browser 
out there.  The comment about insane browser was not related directly to 
that change, it was a general comment.



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