- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:54:25 +0200
- To: "Leif Halvard Silli" <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:09:03 +0200, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> wrote: > Would you not consider <embed> a self-closing element, like <p>? After > all, it can take one element, the <noembed> element. Actually, it can't. > My "HTML 4 unleashed" book from 1998 shows an example where <embed> > doesn't have a closing tag. But in the reference section it says that it > has one. And there is no problem finding references which says that one > should write <embed></embed>. Logically, it is the <noembed> element > which has created this confusion. I suggest testing what browsers have actually implemented. It parses just like <img>. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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