- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:57:59 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: help-whatwg.org@lists.whatwg.org, www-html@w3.org
> > why the "title" element must not contain other elements, > > For compatibility reasons in HTML, title cannot contain elements because > of the way it is parsed. It would be possible to do so in XHTML, but > then that would be another incompatibility between the 2 languages and > there is also limited usefulness in doing so anyway, since many of the > use cases for title are plain text. e.g. the window's title bar, > bookmarks, search results, etc. Well, but can't they just be ignored anyway? I understand that enabling other elements within "title" raises compatibility issues, but it can't be that hard to ignore them under certain circumstances, or is it? -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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