- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:40:41 +0100
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > XHTML documents served as text/html result in interoperable behavior > in typical cases, so that constraint is too strong. Please change > it to "SHOULD be sent..." and "SHOULD NOT be served...". Yes, but that "interoperable behaviour" is /wrong/ (I've sent a demo. of this to Richard Ishida [1]). An XHTML document that contains, anywhere in the <head> region, a construct of the form <meta ... /> should automatically terminate the head region at that point if it is being parsed as HTML; the validator explains this perfectly (if somewhat opaquely, if you don't know what you're looking for). Current browsers do /not/ terminate the <head> region at this point, but they should. Philip TAYLOR -------- [1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Demo-documents/NET.html > This is a demo. of the problem that I created > some time ago, Richard : you will see that > the validator disallows the ">" of > "<link rel="whatever" href="#" />" > as the "/" has already closed the element. > > The ">" therefore triggers "body mode", but > as it's not wrapped in a "<p>" or similar, > it triggers an error. > > ** Phil. > -------- > Richard Ishida wrote: >> Hi Philip, >> >> I guess I'm lacking in understanding on this particular issue. I'm unaware >> of the implications. >> >> Cheers, >> RI
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