- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:45:15 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: > > The parsing section says that < in unquoted attribute values are a parse > error and that it causes the tag token to be emitted. As far as I can > tell < does not emit the tag token in at least Firefox, IE6 or Safari. > Is it intentional to emit the tag token here? (If it is, why?) > > If not, should it still be a parse error (and be disallowed in the > syntax section)? I've removed special processing of "<". Note that the following cases no longer close start tags, despite them working interoperably in Safari and Firefox: <div<p> <div title <p> <div title=""<p> And the following two no longer close tags either (only worked in Firefox): <div title<p> </div<p> All of these were allowed in SGML, as I understand it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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