http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569 Summary: HTML comments in wikitext can cause extra spaces in rendered HTML Product: MediaWiki Version: 1.4beta6 Platform: All URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Oberholtzer OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: Low Component: Page rendering AssignedTo: wikibugs-l(a)wikipedia.org ReportedBy: jbonham(a)mail.utm.utoronto.ca Wikitext such as: Madge then purchased mercuric chloride tablets under the guise of shopping for something else, <!-- my sources disagree whether it was a hat or makeup --silsor --> and consumed them in another attempt at [[suicide]]. can result in two spaces being visibly rendered in the HTML, one of which is a &#160; as follows: Madge then purchased mercuric chloride tablets under the guise of shopping for something else,&#160; and consumed them This is a bug because the default behaviour of HTML rendering agents is to ignore extra whitespace, but the presence of the &#160; prevents this. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l