Re: Form elements and the rest of the document

In message <199607101547.LAA13862@cleon.cc.gatech.edu>, Sunil Mishra writes:
>\\ 
>\\ It's not a parser's job to make sense of HTML. That is up to the
>\\ renderer. It seems reasonable to me that you can safely ignore form
>\\ tags which do not appear inside a form.
>\\ 
>\\ Galactus
>\\ 
>
>True, but HTML 2.0 offered a perfectly good way out of this situation
>without introducing this kind of ambiguity. They added an inclusion to the
>form element in the DTD.
>
><!ELEMENT FORM - - %body.content -(FORM) +(INPUT|SELECT|TEXTAREA)>
>
>Why wasn't the same method followed for HTML 3.2? I mean, was there a
>reason, or was this just an oversight?

There was a reason: with client-side scripting, it begins to make
sense to have form field elements outside of <form> elements.

Dan

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 1996 17:33:37 UTC