- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:02:23 +0200
- To: "Leif Halvard Silli" <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, "Andrew Fedoniouk" <news@terrainformatica.com>, "Andrew Fedoniouk" <andrew.fedoniouk@live.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:21:40 +0200, Andrew Fedoniouk <andrew.fedoniouk@live.com> wrote: > To be honest I do not understand the idea of such reasoning. > > Say if in HTML5 we will decide to always parse <caption> > as such a <span> element: <body> > <caption>Caption text</caption> </body> > > will be parsed and create DOM of this structure > <body> > <caption style="display:inline">Caption text</caption> </body> > > Currently HTML parsers create just this for some reason: > <body> > Caption text > </body> > > These two cases are undistinguishable for the human - so the solution is > backward compatible. I don't think we can > find existing markup on the web that relies on the fact that <caption> > and </caption> tags are silently ignored by modern browsers. If you looked more closely at the resulting DOM in >>>> http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1122 you would notice that parsing of caption is far more problematic when found inside a table cell. And yes, this has been discussed to death several times. :-) -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
Received on Monday, 29 August 2011 05:02:52 UTC