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Re: [html] Elements within "title"?

From: James Justin Harrell <herorev@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:07:18 -0800 (PST)
To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
Cc: www-html@w3.org, help-whatwg.org@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <981168.64927.qm@web50109.mail.yahoo.com>

--- Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:

> For compatibility reasons in HTML, title cannot contain elements because 
> of the way it is parsed.

Why not create an attribute for the title element to allow markup? It might not work right for a
while, but it at least wouldn't break any legacy documents.

<title allowmarkup="true">H<sub>2</sub>0</title>

Received on Monday, 5 March 2007 05:07:57 GMT

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