- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:42:35 +0000
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: "Jukka K.Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, www-html@w3.org, help-whatwg.org@lists.whatwg.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2007, at 13:44, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >> They are already completely incompatible, except in the trickery sense >> that you can masquerade XHTML 1.0 so that it will be eaten by existing >> browsers as the tag soup HTML that they can process. > > I think he meant the serializability of conforming XHTML document trees > as HTML. Whereas I think he meant the serving of XHTML 1.0 as HTML, yet requiring browsers to /ignore/ the HTML semantics of (e.g.) <META ... /> and to continue parsing further content as HEAD matter, even though the "/>" has terminated the HEAD region. Philip Taylor
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