[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Development (Was: Clean up

[Tobias Diedrich]

Gabucino wrote:
> Tobias Diedrich didn't RTFM :
> > line 16 column 98 - Warning: missing </font> before </td>
> > line 19 column 1 - Warning: missing </font> before </td>
> > line 23 column 5 - Warning: missing </b> before </td>
> [these messages repeat endlessly...]
> 
> Now that I re-readed this I remember how I hate this behaviour!
> When <td> resets font settings! Just why on earth can't it eat the default
> setting? It's VERY tiring to paste <FONT...> all the time! So if it
> whines for even closing these repeatedly pasted tags, I'm gonna rotfl and
> kick it off the planet.
> 
> And the same applies for <p>, it (the standard) requires to explicitly
> always define the font again! However, browsers do use previous <FONT>'s
> on <p>, but they don't on <td> .
> 
> Just run tidyhtml on the DOCS, and grep -v these FONT issues! You'll get
> only 0-10 warnings (and those are Egger's missing <tr>'s:) ! So leave me
> alone !
> 
> It should assume default. And if someone argues with me about
> standards, I say it's only natural for a browser for using default FONT
> for <p>, because the standard is broken. Pity it doesn't use it for <td> .

I don't know why you insist on using <font> tags anyway, IMHO theres no
need to. If I rip out all font-Tags and correct the remaining errors, it
does not look any worse than before (IMHO it even looks better, at least
with Netscape 4), but even shrank to only 62% of the previous size.

Note that I did not specify table summary attributes :-)

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