- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:26:10 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > I think the text/html flavor of HTML5 should not allow the following SGML > minimization features (which are theoretically allowed in HTML 4), because > each of them causes problems in at least one of Opera, Firefox and Safari. > > * <> > * </> Agreed. Those should generate comment nodes, I think. > * tagc omission ie. <foo<bar>...</bar</foo> Well we have to define what that does, and the most obvious error handling behaviour here is to start the new tag. So effectively, I would say we shoul have TAGC omission. > * <foo/bar/ Agreed, sadly. That would be equivalent to something like <foo /bar/=""> (or something similar). > * attribute name omission (except for the well-known "boolean attributes") Again, we have to define error handling. <foo bar baz> will probably just be equivalent to <foo bar="" baz="">. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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