Re: [Lynx-dev] Google Mail trouble: `div' elements within `a' elements' bodies

[David Woolley]

Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>         A few months ago, the ``Basic HTML'' interface of Google Mail
>         was changed so that it now uses constructs like:

Whilst Google are only noted for their clean user interfaces, not their 
ability to write HTML, this is particularly bad.
> <td>
> <b>From Who</b>...</td>

Looks like it should have been th (semantic error).

> <td>
> <a href="?v=c&th=hexnumber">

There is no &th; entity in HTML.  This would abort in real XHTML and is 
relying on error recovery in HTML.

> <div><font size=1><font color=#006633>
As noted, plus inline absolute sizes and element that has been 
deprecated for the best part of a decade.

> Inbox
> </font></font>
> <b>On something</b>

Physical us of b.

> </div>
> </a></td>


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