Re: [Lynx-dev] lss weirdness on <div class="contents">

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 08:10:57AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Thomas Dickey dixit:
> 
> >That's a feature... of the color-style (which usually is an improvement
> >over the non-color-style).
> 
> Well anything with (dark) blue and black is hard to read,
> so it shouldn’t match anything random, only those where
> it is explicitly specified.
> 
> >That is, the combination of "div" and "contents" happens to match the
> >hashcode for "em.a".
> 
> Eh, what?

The color-style code (always has) computes a hash code for the tags
and matches on the hash code.  Since the hash table is only a few thousand
items, collisions will happen.  (The program doesn't followup with a
string-comparison after matching the hash -- I seem to recall some limitation
which would allow that).

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