On 15/11/05, Justin Cormack justin@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@dunelm.org.uk