Re: automatic replacement: entities and applet stuff

Hi Francesco,


>  and thanks again for your simpathy and your assistance

:-)


>> Even if Amaya messed up whitespace nodes (something which apparently
>> is happening, at least from a set of recent threads), that shouldn't
>> cause browsers to fail.
>
> No wait, there must be something wrong with the way you are visualizing
> my message. I'm posting from the web and, I guess, you're reading the
> mailing list
> through your email client.
> There must be a glitch somewhere, because some bits of my post disappear
> in the process.
> What you refer to as "blank lines" is not blank at all: it is a long list
> of parameters for the java applet. I have protected this markup as suggested
> in the relevant instruction set, by using the "raw" tag
> (http://old.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=41).

Humm, you are right, I wasn't aware of this Nabble feature, thanks for
sharing. :-)

Nevertheless, it seems that either the Nabble feature is buggy or that
Gmail has a bug in processing that sort of content. I'd suggest always
using plain text messages, as generally recommended [1]. ;-)


> Actually, I do see the whole markup, and no blank lines, in the relevant
> webpage
>
> http://old.nabble.com/automatic-replacement%3A-entities-and-applet-stuff-td27294237.html#a27615417

Yup, that way I'm able to see it, although the link for the specific
message is slightly different [2]. ;-)


> So what happens is, in a nutshell,  that amaya moves all of the applet
> "parameter"
> tags above (outside) the opening "applet" tag. I think that this matters,
> and both  explorer
> and firefox fail to show the applet correcty.

Oh-oh, that would be a tremendous, important bug IMO.

I've tried to reduce the issue and reported bug 9111 [3] to make sure
this doesn't get lost. Just CC yourself there, if you want to be
informed of updates to it. ;-)


> It is similar to the "problem" with the entities: at some
> point (perhaps when saving)
> amaya takes initiative and "improves" my code.

I'd say this is probably unrelated and I still think this particular
behavior can be even seen as a feature. That other one is definitely a
bug...


> Thanks again for your help
>
> Francesco

Thanks to Chaals for the help [4] in clarifying the bug as well. ;-)

Hope this helps,
 Helder


[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#formats
[2] http://old.nabble.com/automatic-replacement%3A-entities-and-applet-stuff-td27294237.html#a27608702
[3] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9111
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/2010JanMar/0092.html