On 15/11/05, Justin Cormack <justin(a)specialbusservice.com> wrote:
Where is the documentation for the markup changes that suddenly
arrived without
me knowing? </div> seems to be redundant now and other stuff, and I
need to fix
some stuff.
"The developers on IRC said it's an older HTML validator which runs
when the HTML Tidy is disabled. It seems to not only close the table
prematurely, but also escape all table markup outside a table." -
cesarb, on WP:HD
My (limited) understanding so far is that the existing html code
decided that a Monday evening was a really, really, good time to
explode. So it did.
In order to get the site running again an older version of the html
parser was put in place, one which is less tolerant of sloppy coding
(some discussion pages are hideous!) and also slightly less capable. I
am unaware what the current status of this is, but presumably someone
is working on reinstating the old one - it wasn't a deliberate choice
to change over to a new piece of code, though.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk