[Bug 11393] End tag fails to break out of foreign content

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11393

--- Comment #15 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-02-28 23:05:57 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> 
> That's a lousy way to deal with this. Basically, you are leaving a spec bug in
> and seeing if implementors take the trouble to realize that the spec is wrong.

No, I'm trying to minimise spec churn by avoiding making non-critical changes
to a stable part of the spec.


>  1) Admit that it was a bad idea to prematurely spec optimizations instead of
> speccing the intended conceptual model.

I agree that it turns out that the spec model is suboptimal, though before this
bug nobody, including you, had shown this to be the case.

I do not think the current model is a premature optimisation (or indeed an
optimisation at all). It's just a different way of approaching a particularly
thorny problem.


>  2) Edit the spec to describe the intended conceptual model (which is already
> implemented in Gecko in order to avoid having to tweak the code every time we
> find yet another failure of your optimization to match the conceptual model).

With all due respect, what Gecko does _isn't_ the intended conceptual model.
The intended conceptual modal was the (now known to be suboptimal) model in the
spec.


(In reply to comment #11)
> 
> talking to our parser guys, we like the conceptual model Henri presents and,
> irrespective of the conceptual model used in the spec, would prefer to
> implement the behaviour that you would get from fixing this bug.

Thanks, that's good information.

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Received on Monday, 28 February 2011 23:06:00 UTC