- From: j.j. <moz@jeka.info>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:19:48 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>: hodd gsachd: > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Ben Boyle wrote: >> >> 2. Would anyone else like the content model of address broadened? I >> would like to be able to structure contact details using lists and >> tables (when appropriate) and to do this within address tags. The >> "paragraph" model is restrictive and I don't understand the reasons for >> the restriction. > > I suppose we could change this for XHTML, but for HTML we're constrained > by legacy parsing behaviour (which is somewhat... special... for > <address>). IE, Opera and Safari allow <address><table> and <address><ul> etc. So what's the problem to allow this? It's perhaps more likely to fix compatibility bugs in mozilla than breaking things. (Even Netscape 4 has no problems with lists in address) http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%3Cstyle%3E%20address%20%7B%20background-color%3Agold%20%7D%20%3C/style%3E%0D%0A%3Caddress%3E%20%3Cul%3E%3Cli%3E%20-list-%20%3C/ul%3E%20%3C/address%3E%0D%0A%3Caddress%3E%20%3Col%3E%3Cli%3E%20-list-%20%3C/ol%3E%20%3C/address%3E%0D%0A%3Caddress%3E%20%0D%0A%20%3Ctable%20border%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Ctd%3E%20-table-%20%3C/table%3E%0D%0A%3C/address%3E j.j.
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