- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:10:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:17:26 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > I'm not convinced > > > > > > http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=917&to=918 > > > > > > is a good change to make. This changes how things like </body><meta> or > > > </body><style> work in browsers. That doesn't seem wise. > > > > It only changes it if the </body> is at the start of the document. I > > haven't come across that kind of markup in my experience. Is this really a > > problem? > > I'm not sure if we should be making changes to parsing algorithms that > already exist without sufficient evidence that it is for the better and > does not break anything. The problem is that if we don't do this, then very simple documents put comments in the wrong place. I agree that it is risky, but I think in this case it is worth it, at least unless we can find counter-evidence. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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