Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in <pre> block rendering in 2.7.2?

[Foteos Macrides]

"David R. Conrad" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>
>> "David R. Conrad" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >I wrote to this list about a week ago and so far I haven't heard any
>> >response.  I'd really like to hear something, whether that be, "Yes,
>> >it's a bug," or, "You're doing it wrong," or whatever.
>> 
>>      It's a bug that I fixed within an hour of reading your
>> excellent bug report.  ...
>>      
>> Be sure to read the BUGFIXES entry about that problem, since your
>> message implied the expectation that a newline immediately following
>> the PRE start tag is significant (but isn't :).
>
>Thank you.  I've now downloaded 272fixes.zip and will be applying
>them and recompiling shortly.  Regarding whether the first newline
>in a PRE block was significant, I really wasn't sure -- but I was
>*certain* that whichever behavior was correct, it had to be
>consistent.  :-)

        Note that it's doing the RIGHT THING according to the HTML 4.0
specs (accessible via the online 'h'elp), but other browsers don't,
and generate more blank lines.  But now that the Netscape sources are
going to be available, we can patch that to do the RIGHT THING too. :)

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