- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:42:34 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > The spec doesn't treat < as special in the tag name state. This is > inconsistent with Firefox 3, Safari 3.1 and Opera 9.5 (and SGML-based > HTML 4 validation). I don't have IE to test with. Is it an IEism? > > The change that would be compatible with Gecko and WebKit would be > emitting the current tag token and reconsuming < in the data state. > (In Opera the stuff starting with < becomes an attribute.) > > Test case: > http://virtuelvis.com/download/162/evilml.html IE7 behaves as HTML5 says: there are lots of elements whose name is "/", an element named "BODY<H1<EM", and another named "P<A" (with an attribute named "<em"). I don't have an IE8 at hand to test with. -- Thomas Broyer
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