Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] CGI DOM fixup

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Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] CGI DOM fixup

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On 01/04/2011 01:58 PM, Sven-Göran Bergh wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I have not seen any reactions on this patch. Thus, I
> submit it again, in hope for some comments and/or
> inclusion.
>
> The patch addresses small, but annoying, bugs in some
> of the the CGI DOMs. A typical example (""
> are replaced with "{" and "}" due to HTML mail client
> confusions):
>

Very confused client indeed then, since they should
encode them as < and >, respectively. Anyways...

> {table}{form}{tr}{td}...{/td}{/tr}{/form}{/table}
>
> is not a valid structure. The form element may be
> ignored or suppressed by some browsers. Valid
> alternatives are:
>
> {form}{table}{tr}{td}...{/td}{/tr}{/table}{/form}
> or
> {table}{tr}{td}{form}...{/form}{/td}{/tr}{/table}
>
> When the CGI's are loaded in their own viewport, all
> shows up ok (as expected :-). However, when the CGIs
> are loaded inside an existing DOM, typically in a
> div-tag, some browsers choose to hide these forms.
>
> The patch is against release 3.2.3 and has been
> tested in Chrome3, Chrome8, FF3.5, IE6, IE8 and
> Opera10.
>
> Affected CGIs are:
> - avail.cgi
> - config.cgi
> - histogram.cgi
> - trends.cgi
>
> There are probably more similar bugs in there, but
> these are my immediate itch. Please include or
> comment.
>

Thanks for the patch and the reminder. Will apply.

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