- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:22:51 -0400
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 10:12 +0100, David Carlisle wrote: > On 06/09/2012 05:33, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > The space is only required if you want your Web page to work in pre-HTML > > 5 mode. A necessity in practice in many (most?) cases. > > I don't think the space is required by any current browsers is it? (I > think it isn't needed unless you need netscape 4 cpmpatibility. I'm not sure if it was even needed in NS 4 if all you wanted was compatible rendering. If you wanted a compatible DOM it's another matter. I'm more concerned with the principle - determine exactly what we mean by HTML compatibility and if we agree it's essential then stick to it everywhere. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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