[Bug 12817] The hr element (and others) Compliments for a great piece of work. However, one issue threatens to undermine the future of HTML5: wellformedness is not required. This may generally lead to ambiguity (did the author intentionally omit the closing tag?) and

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12817

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #3 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-06-21 07:33:24 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Conformance to precise syntax rules _is_ required. I'm not sure what
you mean by "wellformedness" outside of an XML context.

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Received on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:33:30 UTC