- From: Arnoud <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:09:11 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
In article <199707291814.MAA00349@underworld.bigpic.com>, "Neil St.Laurent" <neil@bigpic.com> wrote: > What is HTML's position on handling unknown tags though? According Section 4.2.1 of RFC 1866 (HTML 2.0 spec) recommends that start- and end-tags for unknown elements should be "mapped to nothing" (standardese for "ignored") during tokenization. > to SGML they should simply cause the document to be invalid, but it > appears (and I remember reading) that HTML browsers are to simply > pretend as though the unknown tag wasn't there. "Information providers are warned that this convention is not binding: unspecified behavior may result, as such markup does not conform to this specification." In other words, it's common practice to do so, but a browser which made David Siegel fly out of your nose upon encountering an element that it doesn't recognize is not violating RFC 1866. -- E-mail: galactus@htmlhelp.com .................... PGP Key: 512/63B0E665 Maintainer of WDG's HTML reference: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/>
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