- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 00:06:45 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Michel Fortin wrote: > > > > The "one target" now is HTML5. > > I wonder about one thing though. If the recommended serialization is > HTML5, why is there new features which are simply not supported by HTML5 > (list inside paragraphs, nested forms, etc.)? My impression is that > while HTML is recommended in the prose, the new features are implicitly > recommending XHTML. > > Recommending using the HTML format while making XHTML more powerful at > the same time just strike me as incoherent. This makes it look like > XHTML is the future and that HTML is a temporary and limited > recommendation to keep backward compatibility. That's what I understand > while reading the spec as a whole. If that's not what is intended, then > maybe something should be done about that, like removing some of the > incompatible features. I believe this is only a problem with the <p> element; other paragraph-level elements (like <li> and <footer>) don't have this problem. I agree that it is unfortunate that the <p> element in the syntax is not allowed to contain the same elements it can contain in the DOM. Maybe we should indeed remove this, but that would be unfortunate. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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