Re: LYNX-DEV Fatal error

[Foteos Macrides]

Nick Russo <address@hidden> wrote:
>My recently compiled Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.24 handled it just fine, even
>though the html code in the page is horrible. A previous version could
>only stomach it after I took out the unclosed <b>'s and <tt>'s. Is there
>something in the newer version of Lynx that enables it to handle this kind
>of dirty code?

        The development code has a sortaSGML parser which *does* infer
</b> and </tt> before the </td>'s.  The fotemods has a set of "Utterly
Tag and Attribute Soup" elements to emulate Netscape's behavior.  I
had forgotten to include <tt> in that (will be in today's update), but
the <b>, <em>, etc. "character attribute" elements, and the "hopelessly
bad" block elements like <form>, are in that group.  It infers end tags
for them only at the end of the document, if that is reached without
their having been closed.  Neither the development code nor fotemods will
crash on HTML stack overruns, as do the vanilla code sets through v2.7.1.

                                Fote

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