Re: [Straw-devel] Weird formatting across paragraphs

[Juri Pakaste]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 15:27 -0500, Steve Laniel wrote:
> I just bothered to examine one UI oddity in a feed I load
> all the time. See
> http://bookslut.com/blog/index.rdf
> 
> In particular, look at the feeds containing multiparagraph
> quotes in italics. E.g.,
> 
> <description><![CDATA[<p>The San Antonio Express-News looks at the <a 
> href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA020105.01A.quixote.634bf851.html";>merchandising</a>
>  of Don Quixote in Mexico. (Go to <a 
> href="http://bugmenot.com/";>BugMeNot.com</a> for a username and password.)</p>
> 
> <p><i>At a major artisan market here, Quixote trinkets keep pace with Mexican 
> comic idol Cantinflas and the masked rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos.</p>
> 
> <p>"Tourists, Mexicans — they all buy him," shop owner Bolivar Farfan said of 
> Quixote. "I would imagine it is because of what they read; his teaching is a 
> bit crazy, but he achieves his objective."</i></p>]]></description>
> 
> When I view this feed in Straw, the italics end at the end
> of the first paragraph. The XML looks perfectly fine; it
> should display the italics properly. The corresponding web
> page displays them just fine:
> 
> http://bookslut.com/blog/archives/2005_02.php#004270
> 
> Does anyone else see this behavior?

Not running Straw ATM, but I wouldn't be too surprised. It's broken
HTML, after all: the italics can't span the paragraph break
(<p><i></p><p></i></p>). Straw doesn't touch the HTML, but it's probably
just a question of Mozilla and MSIE putting in more effort to render
broken HTML "as expected" than gtkhtml2. (Well, they put more effort to
render good HTML correctly, too, but you get the idea.)

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