- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 10 Jan 1997 09:23:01 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
> :PLAINTEXT was originally an alternative to BODY, not an appendage to > :it. > > The explanation of Plaintext I read (after I discovered that > Netscape/Mosaic stopped handling any markup after a <plaintext> choosing > to ignore a </plaintext>) stated that UAs would not have to treat anything > after a <plaintext> as markup but render it as "plaintext". So that > suggests <plaintext> implies </html>. If my reading was correct, any > </html> after <plaintext> _could_ be visible to the user. The expectations of PLAINTEXT, as implemented, were that _all_ text after the start-tag would be rendered as it stood, ie all parsing would cease, so the user would see </html> as you suggest, if it were in the file. I don't think this is possible if you stick to the rules of SGML, but the HTML end-tag (a) is implied and (b) was in practice never inserted (not that I ever saw, anyway). ///Peter
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