- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:48:28 -0500
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Something for section 1.8. > > The STYLE and SCRIPT elements should be closed at the first occurrence > of '</' according to section 6.2 of the HTML 4.01 specification. This is > not compatible with current implementations (Mozilla[2], Opera, IE, et > cetera) and especially not compatible with the internet. > > I think we should overwrite this statement of HTML 4.01 in section > 1.8[3] of the web applications specification. If I recall correctly (Ian can correct me if I'm wrong, I don't have the reference handy), this is a result of SGML parsing rules. An HTML specification cannot override this and still claim that HTML can be parsed with a generic SGML parser. ~fantasai
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