- From: Arjun Ray <aray@nmds.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:33:55 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
- Cc: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
At 09:30 PM 10/20/96 -0700, Jon Bosak wrote: >[Arjun Ray:] > >| A datapoint from, er, existing practice. >| >| [explicit support for overlapping elements] > >This Netscape abomination is not accepted by the W3C and has been >explicitly condemned by Microsoft's Internet Explorer designers, > >So going forward, this is not even standard HTML practice. It's never been part of standard practice. OTOH, would anyone care to estimate how much of *existing* practice in "HTML" is *not* tag salad? :-) At any rate, I'd still prefer a relatively strong way to obviate tag salad. To my mind, empty endtags as an instance of minimization has always been the wrong way to look at it, official terminology notwithstanding. Empty endtags should be the rule, and named endtags the optional extra (with a clearcut syntactic purpose.) But with the ERB vote, I'll just say that IMHO expecting tag salad not to happen regularly in popular usage is myopic, and drop the subject. Arjun
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