- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:33:03 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Toby A Inkster wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > ...looks like it should work, but in practice the <lh> element for > > Vegetables would end up inside the Pear <li> element, and changing > > that would likely be problematic. > > ... because of the vast number of existing pages that rely on <lh> > elements being parsed inside <li> elements? More because of the conflict between how pages would be parsed (and thus styled) in new browsers vs legacy browsers. For example, look at the problems that introducing <section> (or worse, <figure>) has caused. Changing the parser rules is a very expensive proposition. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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