Re: [whatwg] Problem in the Section "4 Elements of HTML => 4.4 Sections => 4.4.2 The Section element from Tim Leverett on 2012-09-13 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Tim Leverett <zzzzbov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:04:16 -0400
To: Kevin Deamandel <kdeamndl@gmail.com>
Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <CAOiS3y4K5+kq8d_QcYNkBUmKXcwye5b3CQauQTS+uoGuzTwRbA@mail.gmail.com>

I assume you're referring to tags written as:

<Html
 ><Head
   ><Title

The reason for this is to prevent undesired whitespace in markup, while
preserving indentation. Whitespace in HTML is preserved between tags, but
it is not preserved within.
☺

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Kevin Deamandel <kdeamndl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Contributors.
>
> I recently started checking the specs and i can't help but notice the
> weird formation of the tags in this section
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dfnReturnLink-10
>
> can anybody tell me if this is known/on purpous
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin Deamandel
>

Received on Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:05:39 UTC