Re: Stopping bad HTML propagation ?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11544
interpreted = N
texte = >Hi Mark, > >>Wost thing I've seen is when a guy changes the text color to match the >>same color as the background. Had this happen in chat rooms. Without the >>close tag, room goes dead right then. > >exactly. I've never seen it in a chat room, but I've seen it in several >web-based list archives. I also did it to myself when editing and testing >the catalog setup we're developing. > >I'm beginning to think that there are two ways to go. There's the way >Grant seemed to favor; avoid the problem and don't allow embedded HTML >(just use
tags ?). The other way would seem to be to place >all tags between the entries. I don't know if this second approach >would do it and it is really ugly; guess I'll play with it if I have time >over the next three days. > Another way might be to enclose each chat addition within a cell of a table.If each item were within
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, all font and color tags would end and the end of the cell, and each chat addition would be on a new line. At least this way if someone does something wrong, it only affects them.With this you could also do some fun things with table borders, backgrounds, fonts, etc, if you want. Formatting the page becomes easier too.EdEd Trefzger Vice President and Webmaster Yellow Dog Communications, Inc. http://www.yellowdog.com/ phone 716.235.4685 fax 716.235.0509
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>Hi Mark, > >>Wost thing I've seen is when a guy changes the text color to match the >>same color as the background. Had this happen in chat rooms. Without the >>close tag, room goes dead right then. > >exactly. I've never seen it in a chat room, but I've seen it in several >web-based list archives. I also did it to myself when editing and testing >the catalog setup we're developing. > >I'm beginning to think that there are two ways to go. There's the way >Grant seemed to favor; avoid the problem and don't allow embedded HTML >(just use
tags ?). The other way would seem to be to place >all tags between the entries. I don't know if this second approach >would do it and it is really ugly; guess I'll play with it if I have time >over the next three days. > Another way might be to enclose each chat addition within a cell of a table.If each item were within
| (content) |
, all font and color tags would end and the end of the cell, and each chat addition would be on a new line. At least this way if someone does something wrong, it only affects them.With this you could also do some fun things with table borders, backgrounds, fonts, etc, if you want. Formatting the page becomes easier too.EdEd Trefzger Vice President and Webmaster Yellow Dog Communications, Inc. http://www.yellowdog.com/ phone 716.235.4685 fax 716.235.0509
Ed Trefzger
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