Re^6: Add to Approved tags? (rub)

Tye I give this a major ++.

However I am not sure I understand your third paragraph as you intended. My confusion stems from this:

Regxp: signaling when to stop and Re: use lib functionality are the latest among the June-to-date nodes which use "."

In the case of the second (for its brevity), the opening line(s) render this way (color and font excepted), for me, in IE6, FF & Moz:

Hi, This Module simplifies the manipulation of @INC at compile time. Using

When observed with ViewSource (html validator is on), I see:

<p>
Hi,<font color="#808080" class="htmlignored">&lt;/br></font><font colo
+r="#808080" class="htmlignored">&lt;/br></font>


This ...</p>
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Is this an indication that the tags were processed by an existing "silent (and automated) transformation" or merely an artifact of the browser, ViewSource and the validator?

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Re^7: Add < /br> to Approved tags? (rub) by tye (Sage) on Jun 20, 2007 at 22:19 UTC
No, IE and FireFox don't render `</br>` the same as `<br />`. They render `</br>` as if it were `<br />` (and even render `<br></br>` as if it were `<br /><br />`). If you want to use PerlMonks to test that, then turn off HTML nesting enforcement so that the browser will see `</br>` (not `</br>` or nothing). HTML nesting enforcement will remove and/or add tags to attempt to make the node well-formed so it won't impact the display of surrounding material. If you have its error reporting turned up high enough, then it will also add greyed-out information about what was removed or added. So the original (invalid) `</br>` is removed by it and, for you, a greyed-out version is inserted so the transformation is not "silent" in this case. It is sad that "view source" (in the case FireFox, at least, last I checked) doesn't always faithfully show the source that it received so that people are left guessing. - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^7: Add to Approved tags? (rub)
by tye (Sage) on Jun 20, 2007 at 22:19 UTC

No, IE and FireFox don't render  the same as  . They render  as if it were   (and even render   as if it were  ). If you want to use PerlMonks to test that, then turn off HTML nesting enforcement so that the browser will see  (not  or nothing).

HTML nesting enforcement will remove and/or add tags to attempt to make the node well-formed so it won't impact the display of surrounding material. If you have its error reporting turned up high enough, then it will also add greyed-out information about what was removed or added. So the original (invalid)  is removed by it and, for you, a greyed-out version is inserted so the transformation is not "silent" in this case.

It is sad that "view source" (in the case FireFox, at least, last I checked) doesn't always faithfully show the source that it received so that people are left guessing.

- tye

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