From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: hello world program still not working Date: 16 Jul 2000 19:55:50 +0100 Organization: Wadham College Oxford Lines: 12 Message-ID: <8kt0fm$2iq$1@plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk> References: <8ks68a$8ht$1 AT newsflood DOT tokyo DOT att DOT ne DOT jp> <8ksd1q$pi9$1 AT news6 DOT isdnet DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk X-Trace: news.ox.ac.uk 963773751 13828 163.1.164.74 (16 Jul 2000 18:55:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster AT ox DOT ac DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jul 2000 18:55:51 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article , Damian Yerrick wrote: >The OP may have been reading a C tutorial on the Web with badly done >HTML. The was deleted by the browser's HTML engine. But >wouldn't it have generated an HTML warning: missing tag? Like the

tag and the tag always do? ;) HTML-interpreters are meant to second-guess and be forward compatible, /and/ to barf silently. You'd probably have to look at the /source/ on, say, Netscape, for the bad HTML to be highlighted. J-P