- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:53:31 +0100
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> However, a more useful solution to cleaning up the source would be to >> simply close the <a> element at the end of the first paragraph and not >> clone it for subsequent content. > > That would change the meaning of an HTML5 document, whereas with more > conventional documents it would change it from implementation defined to > well defined. Yes, it would be different from how browsers have to interpret it. But from the perspective of a web developer, the vast majority of cases where an end tag is omitted as in the example I gave, the omission is accidental and having a tool or browser feature designed to help web developers clean up their own markup would be much more useful if it behaved as I described, rather than naively serialising the DOM created by the HTML5 parsing algorithm. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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