- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:19:35 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > That would mean giving up the fiction that HTML is an SGML > > application. > > It once was, but if it still is an SGML application it would be incompatible > with the web. Similar for "<br />" and such I guess. Agreed. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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