[thelist] IE DOM and MSHTML wackiness

Sam-I-Am sam at sam-i-am.com
Wed Nov 28 10:03:00 CST 2001


[sorting through old mail]

Aardvark wrote:
> 
> :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> : where is the default DTD or schema that IE
> : uses to convert between these two formats?
> : can it be overridden? if so how?
> :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
and .jeff replied
> that's a damn good question.  i wish i knew the answer to it myself.  i've
> done plenty of development with ie to give users the ability to format text
> without knowing html (sort of a browser-based version of word) and have just
> learned to live with the resulting html as i've not found any other way to
> fix it -- short of all sorts of nasty server-side regex fun.
> 

anything new to bring to this subject? It seems like this is the kind of
problem that someone somewhere would have dug into. If I knew where to
begin I'd go hunting for more but any search I do on MSHTML doesn't give
me much to go on. 

Sam




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