At 07:04 AM 3/22/2006, you wrote:
Paul Novitski wrote:
> Ah hah -- it took me a minute to see why this was working for you but
> not for me. I'm using an XHTML Strict doctype and you're using HTML
> Transitional.
I think it is worse than that; my page puts IE in Quirks mode. I've used IE
to save a copy of your original document and it saved it with that broken
DTD. I only noticed this after you mentionned you're using a Strict Doctype
:-(
You know, I've been using XHTML Strict served as text for the past
year or so because it's given me such beautifully consistent results
cross-browser, but I think I'm finally about to yield to the
arguments that that doctype is self-contradictory. I want to use
Strict but I'm reluctant to stop using XHTML-style markup. What's
your personal recommendation?
> Also, you were omitting the space before each slash.
That was on purpose. It was to show that the line breaks at the <i> with or
without the space in there. That technique could be used with long strings
of characters like URIs that would break just before the "/" for example (or
anywhere the author choose). I thought that was interesting.
I think it's great! Seems like a good solution for wrapping URIs
which comes up as a problem constantly on the listserves I belong to.
I'm really curious to learn why the Microsoft programmers coded IE to
suppress word wrap with whitespace-slash. I haven't found it [yet]
documented on the MS website which makes to doubt that it was
deliberate. If it's accidental, it might have been logic that
spilled over from another part of the parser, such as XHTML />
end-tag parsing, but that doesn't quite wash since the interior of a
tag would only need to be parsed (and excluded from textual
rendering) until the final >. I think I'll bring it to the attention
of the IE7 team just in case one of them can remember how it got that way.
Warm regards,
Paul
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