Swiki Oddity

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Fri Jan 28 08:29:48 UTC 2000


On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paul FitzGerald wrote:

> Well the real oddity is how web browsers (NS & IE) handle <BR> tags when 
> they are in <TR> tags. In short you get a bunch of extra space above the
> table.
> 
> Since the Swiki always replaces CRs with <BR>s, even in tables, you'll
> always get the strange result. In contrast other web servers don't have this
> problem.

Other webservers are just dumb and only serve what you write ;-)

You can set Comanche/Swiki into dumb mode with the
	<html> 
	... your code ... 
	</html>
construct. No swiki special formatting will be applied in that region.
You can find this and other formatting hints in the help guide (top right
button).

The problem with older swikis like minnow is that some kind soul needs to
fix broken pages manually because the automatic conversion from PWS/Swiki
was not that intelligent. It's not only tables, but also preformatted
regions, lists, etc.

  -Bert-





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