Holger Reporter
	Description • 21 years ago

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

As I understand it the page:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html#LI
is an authority on how html should render.
It is also an example on how the DL tag doesn't render properly when used with
the parameter "compact". According to the NCSA "the definition" and "the text"
should be on the same line - that's the purpose of the "compact" parameter.
Here's the html from that page (I'm hoping it's ok to include html here...):
<DL COMPACT>
<DT> -i
<DD>invokes NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows
  using the initialization file defined in the path
<DT> -k
<DD>invokes NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows in
  kiosk mode
</DL>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to page
2. look
3. 

Actual Results:  
Illustration:

-i
   invokes NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows
   using the initialization file defined in the path
-k
   invokes NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows in
   kiosk mode


Expected Results:  
Illustration:

-i invokes NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows
   using the initialization file defined in the path
-k invokes NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows in
   kiosk mode

	Bill Mason
	Comment 1 • 21 years ago

The HTML4 spec is the authority, not that document.  And the spec does not say
anything about how the layout should be rendered.  See bug 2055 comment 16.

The compact attribute will not be supported. See bug 2055 comment 31.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2055 ***