On Apr 2, 2008, at 18:29, Bruce Miller wrote: > A minor question: > Is handling <whatevertag/> in HTML5 really a problem? Yes. Consider the security implications of different browsers and gatekeepers considering different things executable with <script/>. > _Surely_, no one out there is writing HTML using <whatevertag/> > when they _dont_ mean to close the element?!?!?! Oh, there are people who *think* they are closing and element with <whatevertag/>. I think it is pretty safe to say that some of them end up relying on the actual layout or form behavior they get when <whatevertag/> doesn't close the element, but I don't have data to support this claim. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Wednesday, 2 April 2008 15:37:43 GMT
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