Re: [Docutils-users] Re: HTML body

[Michael F. <mi...@pc...>]

Felix Wiemann wrote:

>Michael Foord wrote:
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>>Felix Wiemann wrote:
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>>>For some reason IE is cropping the first paragraph of "2.1.1 Inline
>>>Markup" -- in standards mode!  I have no idea why, though.
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>>Hmmm..... this is the same problem I had on my website. I use docutils
>>for my blog entries (and now my website contents).
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>>See this `blog entry`__ for details of the problems I had with the
>>``white-space : pre`` css rule. It causes any line with an ``inline
>>literal`` in it to be rendered as one long line. This was breaking my
>>layout and is causing the same problem here - but *only* in standards
>>mode.
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>Now if you accept that Microsoft has a rather screwed notion of what
>"standard" means, what's wrong with adding an XML declaration so that
>you have conforming XML code and so that IE uses quirks mode?
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>I mean, IE's quirks mode doesn't seem to be a practical problem, at
>least not with XHTML generated by Docutils, and it's certainly not a
>theoretical problem I'd worry about.
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Ok :-)
I guess it's related to the fact that IE doesn't recognise XHTML as XML 
at all - and will only accept it served as HTML.

I also wonder if switching to quirks mode will interfere with the DOM. 
This is *possibly* an issue for people who combine javascript with HTML 
generated by docutils. In this case though people can choose standards 
mode themselves by not using the xml declaration :-)

Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python