Re: Making the HTML language self-describing

On Jan 8, 2009, at 04:03, Ian Hickson wrote:

>> However, my concern isn't making the void elements actually do
>> something, but rather the cascading failure that happens as soon as  
>> you
>> use an unknown void element.
>>
>> The entire page shouldn't break just because one element is not
>> supported by the parser.
>
> Could you elaborate on this? I'm not aware of any cascading failure  
> that
> comes from using any of the void elements proposed in a UA that  
> doesn't
> parse it as expected.


s/cascading/selector/

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