Re: HTML 4.0/SGML, (#PCDATA)* problem in TEXTAREA

In the time of 29 Jul 97:13:26, Paul Prescod pronounced:

> I don't think that <HELLO> and <P> are allowed in <TEXTAREA> so your
> document is invalid and any rendering is as appropriate as another. The
> HTML spec. does not specify the behaviour of incorrect documents..

Seems odd that both browsers are treating the TEXTAREA as RCDATA 
though...

What is HTML's position on handling unknown tags though?  According 
to SGML they should simply cause the document to be invalid, but it 
appears (and I remember reading) that HTML browsers are to simply 
pretend as though the unknown tag wasn't there.
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Received on Tuesday, 29 July 1997 14:14:44 UTC