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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, 53493@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53493: 28.0.50; eww bug
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:39:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nCZ9T-0005K5-Od@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r0wypfr.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue,  25 Jan 2022 13:23:20 +0100)

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  > Lynx uses a different HTML parser.  Emacs uses libxml2 to parse HTML,
  > and it parses HTML according to the standards, while Lynx has a more
  > DWIM parser.

The DWIM approach is much better for users.  I wish Emacs used it.
Rigidly following a standard is not the GNU way.

But since it would be a lot of work to change that, I won't push for it.

  > If you want Emacs to handle this differently, you'll have to file a bug
  > report with the libxml2 developers.

Thanks.  (I suppose they would say it's too much trouble.)

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-26  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-24  4:33 bug#53493: 28.0.50; eww bug Richard Stallman
2022-01-24  8:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-24  9:59   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-25  4:16     ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-25 12:23       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-26  3:39         ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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