Re: mirror/submit.wml

[peter karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>]

Anthony Fok:

> Netscape 4.x is buggy and will have problem when a nested table doesn't
> have all the closing </TD> </TR> tags, so yes, adding them is
> definitely better.  :-)

Well, if you use nested tables, then you're on really thin ice, that's
something that's extremly seldom necessary. I remember doing nested
tables once, but I can't remember having problems with having to write
</TD> or </TR> even then.

> Also, it _might_ save some the browser some time from parsing and
> guessing where the closing </TD> </TR> should be.

Well, according to the spec, <TD> end if the parser finds a <TR> or
another <TD> or <TH>, and a <TR> ends at the next <TR> (both end at the
end of <TABLE> of course), so that shouldn't be a problem. Actually,
you might save time parsing by not having to parse redundant tags.

> Also, it seems that everyone is heading towards XHTML and/or XML
> eventually, so it is probably a good time to start changing our habits
> now.  :-)

So, that means that we are also going to close all paragraphs, remove
invalid use of <br><br>, and so on?

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