Re: H1's inside A's

From: Dennis New <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Subject: Re: H1's inside A's
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:01:33 -0400
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On 30 Apr 2014 00:34:58 +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> On Di, Apr 29, 2014, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57:09PM -0400, Dennis New wrote:
> > > I know technically the H1 heading tags aren't allowed between
> > > A../A, and Dillo rightfully complains about this:
> > > 
> > >    "a" is not allowed to contain "h1". -- closing "a"
> > > 
> > > But it seems like an innocent tiny mistake. Can't dillo linkify
> > > anyways, in addition to throwing this error? Currently the
> > > link-information is lost and only accessibly if I manually view
> > > the source and copy-paste it. Other browsers (i.e. webkitgtk
> > > based ones) do this, which is quite useful.
> > 
> > I agree, that it would be nice to have those links working - while
> > still reporting it as an error.
> > I didn't check yet how complicated it would be to get things working
> > that way.
> 
> Would this not collide with rules to implicitely close <a> in HTML
> (not XHTML!)?
> 
> Anyway: The attached page behaves the same way in dillo as in Firefox.

My webkitgtk browser behaves differently -- it doesn't automatically
close the first "nowhere" link, until the next one starts. The DOM tree
looks like:

  http://imgur.com/4OHrNHN

By the way, I came across this case on a website that wanted to have
the titles to stories as links, and bigger text size, something like:

  <a href="story1"><h1>Story One Title</h1></a>

And in such cases, dillo won't render the link. The html rule banning
such constructs doesn't seem obvious to me, so I imagine there are many
such cases floating around. H1 kinda is just a <font size="+1"> with a
<br> at the end :P.


> OTOH, w3m closes the first, but not the second <a> implicitely. Do
> you have other test cases?
> 
> (I haven't looked in detail at the specs, and it may be different in
> HTML 5.)