[xiphos-users] Slightly odd behavior - reason?

[Ed Backell]

thank you sir.

I had kind of guessed it was something like that, and now that I *know*
about it, I can always be sure just to click on the left edge of the verse
where that first word is, because it's almost always going to be clickable.

Just a matter of training my brain and my hands. Thanks!

KFJ - Pastor Ed
Warden Community Church


On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 12:10 PM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org>
wrote:

> On 1/17/24 13:32, Ed Backell wrote:
>
> Is this a known behavior? Is it easy to alter?
>
>
> Yes. No.
>
> The code wraps the entire verse text in <a href=...></a> to make it
> clickable. Then the problem becomes that internal linkages in the module
> markup also using <a href=...></a> create an HTML inconsistency of the form
> <a href=...> some stuff here <a href=...>module-internal link here</a>
> other stuff at the end</a>. The result is that "some stuff here" is
> clickable but "other stuff at the end" is not. And frankly it's just on the
> good graces of the HTML interpreter that any of the links work at all,
> because it's a real inconsistency due to the fact that <a></a> does not
> nest -- it would be fair, if unfortunate, for the HTML handling to just say
> "hm, <a href>...and then <a href>? who are you kidding, forget it."
>
> This wasn't noticed until long after the feature, if you can call it that,
> was in live usage, and tweaking the code to become sensitive to the
> internal linkages within the text hasn't been seen as worth the trouble.
>
> --karl
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