- From: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:04:40 -0500
- To: "Peter Flynn" <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Cc: "WWW HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
| (as I said earlier, I see no reason why most all end tags can not be | assumed...) | | Many of them can. What's your problem? I think, for example, you need | to use end-tags on <H1>, otherwise the browser can't tell where the | heading ends. Same for <A>. I know some people have argued that <EM> | should be defined with an optional end-tag, so that emphasis gets | turned off automatically at the end of the paragraph. It can't???? Sense when.... Sense when can't a browser tell: <H1> Hi! <P> This isn't a headin! <H6> End of document! </HTML> From this I can infer that a <HTML> and <BODY> exist before the <H1>, I can infer that the <H1> must end before the <P> due to content conflicts, like wise I can tell the <P> had ended before the <H6> starts, and the <H6> is forced closed by the infered </BODY> closing caused by the </HTML>. Anything furthur in the file woild force me to error... Oh, and EM has to be closed before the closing <P>, a content conflict would occur.... a <P> can not be contained by an <EM>, character markup can not suround block markup as far as I read it... (except in the case of buggy MSIE's marquee tag...)
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