- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:07:58 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 10:03p -0400 07/29/97, Paul Prescod wrote:
>
> HTML is SGML and unknown elements are invalid in both. Certain versions
> of HTML described a particular, popular error recovery mechanism that
> involved ignoring the tags, but that mechanism was never to be
> considered mandatory and documents that depended on it were just as
> wrong as documents that did not. I can't find anything that would
> recommend an error recovery mechanism in HTML 4.0, but I haven't read
> the whole spec. Like you, many people misread the earlier comment to be
> some form of rule.
Yeah, I had been under that impression too. ::sigh::
What is recommended for "proprietary" sections? DIV/SPAN with CLASS?
Something like:
<DIV CLASS=Product>
<SPAN CLASS=Product.Name>Cooler Widget</SPAN>
<SPAN CLASS=Product.Dept>Thingie Department</SPAN>
</DIV>
?
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Received on Tuesday, 29 July 1997 23:08:53 UTC