- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 20:08:37 -0400
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, www-html@w3.org
On 5/2/07, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jim Jewett wrote: > > On 5/2/07, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > > > Lee Roberts wrote: > > > > <title>Some Title</title> > > > > <p>Some text.</p> > > > [other than missing doctype] it is valid and well formed HTML 4.01 Strict, > > Accepting this sort of tag soup because of technicalities encourages > > sloppy markup in general. Support for this sort of exception > > complicates parsers. > So to clarify, what you are asking for is the removal of the feature > defined in HTML4 which allows certain tags to be omitted in certain > unambiguous situations? Yes. And if that is too radical, at least reduce the number of such permitted omissions. -jJ
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