Re: Bug in Parser (about comments)

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:12:50 +0200 

In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.970626155712.518D-100000@scooter.mdstud.chalmers.se>,
 Calle Aasman writes:

> another thing: it refuses to treat a tag like this:
> <font face="Arial", "Helvetica">
> 
> 
> as a font tag (or any tag at all), it just treats it as common text :/
> whole cnet got full of these tags so when I run the parser I get normal
> code all mixed up with fon-tags :/

Does this syntax really work in Netscape and IE?  Is common outside cnet?

The HTML ought to look like this:

   <font face="Arial, Helvetica">

> any idea what it can be?

As soon as the parser find the "," outside the quotes it concludes
that this can't possible be a start tag and it will treat it is normal
text.

Regards,
Gisle