In article <3d33fa29@news.povray.org> , "Chris Cason" 
<new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote:

> This seems only to happen in Mozilla, and is most strange - Mozilla seems to
> think that any tag of the form '<a name="Something">' without a closing '</a>'
> implies that all the following text should be displayed as a link ...

They are, as in many other case, over-interpreting the HTML 4 "Standard".
So, again the holly and unfailable master teachers of proper web design in
the Mozilla development group force the specification on the user no matter
what the cost.  Hence the obvious is not to use intentionally broken
browsers like Mozilla!

Or, IMO the problem is the (only self-appointed after all!) W3C which exists
as industry self-interest defending group outside reliable and responsible
acting organizations (i.e. ISO committees).  Instead, the W3C is obviously
the battleground certain companies like to play with users instead being
concerned about them.  And on this way they forgot one of the most important
principles, already stated in as ancient documents as the IP and TCP
specifications:

"In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior,
and liberal in its receiving behavior."

But who cares about putting something like this into any of the W3C
documents?  Nobody, because good and useful "standards" are obviously not
their priority.  Instead, they take the most convenient way and say behavior
is undefined.  In conclusion, only giant boating of so-called "standards"
with useless features is what they do all day long :-(

    Thorsten

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