Fwd: Re: [CSS21] Make XHTML <body> magic just like HTML <body>

FYI

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From: "Bert Bos" <bert@w3.org>
To: www-style@w3.org
Cc: zcorpan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [CSS21] Make XHTML <body> magic just like HTML <body>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:51:28 +0200


The CSS WG decided _not_ to change the spec in response to Simon
Pieters's request[1] to make BODY as special in XHTML as in HTML. (The
exceptions for HTML are there for historical reasons, they affect other
elements than BODY, too and we like them to _stay_ exceptions. Our
impression is that the XHTML WG also doesn't want them to apply to
XHTML. Also consider that other XML-based formats aren't special
either, even if if they have a BODY element.)

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Mar/0035.html

(For reference, this is issue 31 in the forthcoming "Disposition of
Comments.")

Simon, please let us know if you can't agree with this resolution.



For the CSS WG,

Bert

Received on Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:41:59 UTC