- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 11:50:49 -0600
- To: "Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor" <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- CC: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
I suppose our messages crossed... Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Dan Connolly wrote: > > > Perhaps we should have added a NOTE about why this restriction is there: > > it's there because older HTML implementations treated <!--...---> as > > character data, and I think some versions of the HTML spec declared > > the TITLE element as CDATA. So there are known interoperability > > problems, > > so authors are prohibited from going there. > > Actually come to think about it, if interoperability is an issue, then why > move to PCDATA? "There are SGML mechanisms, CDATA and RCDATA declared content, that allow most `<', `>', and `&' characters to be entered without the use of entity references. Because these mechanisms tend to be used and implemented inconsistently, and because they conflict with techniques for reducing HTML to 7 bit ASCII for transport, they are deprecated in this version of HTML. See section Example and Listing: XMP, LISTING. " http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_foot.html#FOOT5 > This is going to break older implementations anyway. If > we are going to break older implementaitons, why no go all the way and > allow comments in titles? Comments (and esp marked sections) could be > very useful. > > ex > > <TITLE/<![TEMP[DRAFT - ]]>HTML 4.01 spec/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ tel:+1-512-310-2971 (office, mobile) mailto:connolly.pager@w3.org (put your tel# in the Subject:)
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