- From: Abigail <abigail@ny.fnx.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:54:01 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
You, Carl Morris, wrote: ++ ++ | (as I said earlier, I see no reason why most all end tags can not ++ be ++ | assumed...) ++ | ++ | Many of them can. What's your problem? I think, for example, you need ++ | to use end-tags on <H1>, otherwise the browser can't tell where the ++ | heading ends. Same for <A>. I know some people have argued that <EM> ++ | should be defined with an optional end-tag, so that emphasis gets ++ | turned off automatically at the end of the paragraph. ++ ++ It can't???? Sense when.... Sense when can't a browser tell: ++ ++ <H1> Hi! ++ ++ <P> This isn't a headin! ++ ++ <H6> End of document! ++ ++ </HTML> Because it doesn't know where to end the <H?>. Remember that %text may appear in the document. For instance, the browser cannot detect whether you meant: <H6> End</H6>of document <H6> End of</H6>document <H6> End of document</H6> Or even: <H6> End of doc</H6>ument Don't confuse things that are "obvious" for the human eye with unambigious parsable. Abigail
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