[Patch] a renderer for <FIELDSET> and <LEGEND>

[Germain Garand]

Le Mercredi 24 Juillet 2002 09:53, Till Krech a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> well done!
> I just ask myself why the form elements were ignored before. Shouldn't any
> body content be rendered as normal when a tag is unknown in a browser ?
>
> So, your patch a) fixes a grave bug. b) adds a nice feature.
>
> I would say, it's worth committing, and should even be backported because
> without your patch the form isn't displayed at all - but I cannot decide
> about this.
> Dirk - are you here ? What do you think ?
>
> regards, till

Thanks for your nice comments Till !
I would really love to see (at least minimal : ie. non destructive) support
for fieldset make it's way back to the 3.0 serie...
For now, I'm just piling sandbags, donning asbestos,and ducking for cover, as
LEGEND is a touchy subject among purists :)

Germain

> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04:13, Germain Garand wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I noticed a while back that HTML 4's <FIELDSET> and <LEGEND> elements
> > didn't have a renderer in KHTML, so I've worked on this topic.
> > It was ennoying to sometime miss forms because they were wrapped in
> > those.
> >
> > I intended to respect HTML 4.01's DTD, so tell me if I've missed
> > something.
> >
> > Here is a testcase:
> > http://www.phoenix-library.org/germain/testcases/testfieldset.html
> >
> > And a screenshot after patch :
> > http://www.phoenix-library.org/germain/shots/konq_fieldset.png
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Germain

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