- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:34:43 +0200
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 2010-06-17 15:37, Steven Faulkner wrote: >> A presentation by Daniel Glazman at XTech 2006 convinced me that empty >> structures should be valid. Letting them be valid makes it easier to develop >> editors>that maintain validity at each editing operation and don't allow >> invalid intermediate states. > > That sounds reasonable, but what about cases where there are empty elements > <h1> for example in a published document? The spec used to have a concept of "significant inline content", which handled many cases like these. However, the concept proved too restrictive and infeasible. I can't recall the exact details about its removal, but there should be discussions about its removal in the whatwg archives, some time in late 2007 or early 2008. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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