Re: HTML4 Diffs - Object, again

On Sunday 2010-06-27 04:59 +0200, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> can you track down and put into the Differences document some data 
> about _when_ and _why_ HTML5 changed the content model of <object>? 
> 
> Example of the issue:
> 
> <p>
>      <object type="image/gif" data="image">
>         <p>Foo.</p>
>      </object>
> </p>
> 
> The above is legal in HTML4, but illegal in HTML5.I've already a bug to 
> get back the HTML4 content model: 
> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9657

I think the HTML4 model was just a spec bug resulting from the use
of DTDs to express the restrictions of the language.  Why would you
want <object> to let pages violate a whole bunch of the rules of the
content model of the language?

I could understand saying that you want to allow nested paragraphs
in general.  (It's not compatible with text/html-parsing, though.)
But why would you want to allow nested paragraphs only when there is
an object element between them?

-David

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