227990 - UI Footer does not respect HTML 4 specifications

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Vlad Dascalu]

We need to rephase "<nobr>[% q.name FILTER html %]</nobr>" in another way
(<nobr> is not accepted as a valid HTML tag by the online
http://validator.w3.org ). It's located in
template/en/default/global/useful-links.html.tmpl .

Due to the fact that it's in the footer, it makes most pages HTML-not valid.

Comment 1

[Jouni Heikniemi]

Now, do we really need to? I agree validity is good, but there are several types
of invalidity, of which extension attributes and elements are the least harmful.
Browsers usually ignore unknown elements and attributes ("ignoring" elements
means rendering its content without regarding the element around it). This
behavior is supported and endorsed by the HTML specification (see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#notes-invalid-docs>).
Therefore, I'm in on using this sort of well-supported extension attributes to
achieve an useful effect, as long as we're not counting on them for any critical
behavior.

Of course, CSS would be better. Our practical alternative here is |white-space:
nowrap;|, but it has its share of problems, too. One, it's not particularly well
supported especially on 5.x IEs. Secondly, CSS spec used to mark white-space as
a valid rule for _block_ elements only, so most really good uses of it are
invalid in the face of a CSS validator. Though, this was fixed in CSS2 errata,
so it's probably a non-issue these days.

I don't really care which one we use, but my gut feeling is that <nobr> still
works better. Of course, if we're simply satisfied by replacing spaces with
&nbsp;'s, that's another issue - but at least IE will then start wrapping on
hyphens...

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

fixed by bug 245924?

Comment 3

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

Attachment: Use new no_break filter

Comment 4

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> fixed by bug 245924?

No, unfortunately not.

Comment 5

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 170246 [details] [diff] [review]
Use new no_break filter

r=LpSolit

Comment 6

[Shane H. W. Travis]

Checking in template/en/default/global/useful-links.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/useful-
links.html.tmpl,v  <--  useful-links.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.33; previous revision: 1.32
done