Re: HTML5 recommendation section 10.3.3 Flow content

17.6.2016, 16:09, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>
> On 17 June 2016 at 13:42, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de 
> <mailto:Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>> wrote:
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>     Do they really exist in HTML5 or is this a bug?
>
>
> <plaintext>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/plaintext
>
> <listing>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/listing
>
> neither is in HTML5, but some browsers support, thus the CSS

More exactly, they have been deprecated/obsolete/nonconforming since the
beginning of HTML (HTML 2.0), yet universally supported, though <listing>
was not implemented quite the way it was specified. (I have not checked
recently, so maybe some browser has dropped support, for some odd reason.)

The two elements are mentioned as obsolete as
https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features

It’s hard to imagine why anyone would use them these days, but they may
appear in old documents. Yet, documenting their “suggested” rendering is 
useful
for implementers of new browsers who wish to avoid making some old documents
rendered as a mess.

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Received on Friday, 17 June 2016 13:46:27 UTC