Re: Missing anchor - strange results

Nick Warne <nick-ucsffw2X/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 16:51:09 +0000
eocene <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 04:21:24PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I don't know what to make of this one:
> > 
> > http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160604.html
> > 
> > It appears line 49 in the source is missing a </a> which seems make
> > the whole paragraph a URL, but the other URLs in there are still
> > shown/valid if you hover over the text.
> > 
> > Viewing the source, no errors are reported by Dillo either.
> > 
> > So do we get a URL embedding all the other URLs on the plain text
> > in between?  
> 
> Hmm, it does say in HTML5 for the A element:
> 
> "Content model: 
> 
> Transparent, but there must be no interactive content or a element
> descendants."
> 
> ...so perhaps one should be closed with a warning when another is
> seen.

Yes, also surely there is no case to do embedded <a href=... <a
href=...</a> </a> is there (even though this was a typo)?

Strange one to find - Dillo is great at finding stuff like this - other
browsers hide it all.

Nick
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