GNU bug report logs - #37009
EWW Gets Confused on Invalid HTML

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nick Daly <nick.m.daly <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:20:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Merged with 37397

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, nick.m.daly <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#37009: EWW Gets Confused on Invalid HTML
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 16:08:28 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> For instance, if what follows the < isn't a letter (or an exclamation
> point), then it should probably be &lt; instead.  That would have fixed
> the problem in this case, and is something I think shr should do.

I've now done this on the trunk, but I made the change in eww instead of
shr, since the low-level shr library probably shouldn't do that sort of
stuff.

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