Fwd: Re: selectTextAsHTML()

[David Faure]

On Monday 06 June 2005 14:45, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Saturday 04 June 2005 11:22, John Tapsell wrote:
> > Notice that the tags are lowercase, but the meta and br tags are
> > still not closed.  BTW, google doesn't claim this is xhtml.
> 
> I think you are madly confused about the html vs xhtml. 
> khtml is a html compat mode on this page. Therefore 
> 1) the tags won't be closed (it's html),
> 2) tags will be uppercased (it's html compat mode)
> 
> I'm not sure how many scripts depend on the uppercased html tags. The 
> code is in ::tagName() experiment with it and see what breaks if you 
> change it. Either way I don't see how's that a problem, if you can't 
> handle uppercase tags in your apps/scripts lowercase them on your side.

It's certainly a bad idea with changing the behavior of tagName().
The "namespaces.html" testcase in khtmltests certainly expects things the way they are currently.
I was only talking about changing toString(), if we want it to spit out XHTML
even when the initial page was using HTML compat. Arguable though.

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