- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:10:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Jim Ley wrote: >>>> The HTML WG has stated that UAs should treat all text/html content as >>>> legacy HTML content (aka Tag Soup): >>>> >>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Sep/0024.html >>> >>> Unfortunately that's not what the specification says, if that's what >>> they mean they need to clarify the specification, but then we know >>> that already. >> >> Indeed, the specification doesn't say anything at all. >> >> What would you suggest UAs should do? > > Their best effort at understanding it Obviously. I mean, what solution would you have here. > that's always what I expect user agents to do, it's clearly broken, but > it's the spec that's broken, any individual UA's error correction that > get something meaningful is to be applauded, but equally those that > don't can't be complained about too loudly. What is wrong with the current behaviour, other than the fact that it doesn't implement NET SHORTTAG? Note that trying to parse <foo/> as an empty element breaks a large number of sites that expect this to be treated the same as <foo>. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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