- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:39:23 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
> If I understand you correctly, you are saying that HTML specifications
> should define browser behavior (perhaps at the SHALL level?) for all
> possible markup errors. Wouldn't this mean that we would effectively
> change the language to permit everything?
No, of course not. CSS says how this should be parsed:
p { color: ( red ); }
...but it's still invalid.
> And this would mean, IMHO, defining HTML as tag soup. You could write
> any mixture of tags and it would have a defined meaning.
What's the problem with that?
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