- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 19:33:48 -0400
- To: "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On 5/2/07, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > > Lee Roberts wrote: > > <title>Some Title</title> > > <p>Some text.</p> > > To be valid it needs a doctype declaration, but other than that it > is valid and well formed HTML 4.01 Strict, although not minimal, as > the </p> tag is not needed. In html4, yes. Accepting this sort of tag soup because of technicalities encourages sloppy markup in general. Support for this sort of exception complicates parsers. My preference would be that HTML5 declare it invalid, but specify the error handling in the user-agent error-handling section. A browser aiming for mass adoption would need to get it right; a demonstration parser should consider it a fairly low priority. -jJ
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