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Re: markup syntax for member pages
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Date: 
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:44:44 GMT
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Todd:

Just a minor detail.

very easy to understand, even by an experienced human -- it's too easy for
people to make trivial mistakes like

   The LEGO&reg Group                  Missing ";"

This one is actually legal.

I think your suggestion looks fine (but it isn't much work
to handle HTML if you use nsgmls[1]).

Play well,

Jacob

1) <URL:http://hugin.ldraw.org/highscore> is generated by a
   _tcsh_ script that uses nsgmls for parsing of the HTML
   files.

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  Re: markup syntax for member pages
 
(...) Omitting the ; isn't deprecated and highly discouraged? I guess that wasn't a good example, anyway. The one I've seen people have the most trouble with is &copy; -- someone presumably has originally written Copyright &copy 1999 Blah blah blah (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) If HTML were chosen, then not only would it require a full-blown HTML parser/ validator to prevent garbage like <TABLE BORDER=8 CELLPADDING=10 BGCOLOR="#FF0000"><TR><TD> <FONT COLOR="#00FF00" SIZE="+4"><B> <BLINK>THIS IS MY <BIG>COOL</BIG> (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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