- From: Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:39:04 +0900
- To: Julio Meca Hansen <julio@refineriaweb.com>
- Cc: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, www-validator@w3.org
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, 2013-04-23 09:22 +0300: > 2013-04-22 15:12, Julio Meca Hansen wrote: > > >I’ve discovered what I think it’s an error in the HTML5 validator. > >Omitting the starting <body> tag makes a web page (using the direct > >input validator) go valid. > > The start tag <body> has always been optional in HTML, except for XHTML, > which this is not about. So there is no error. Yup. And note that to help make the tag-omission rules more clear, all the element sections in the HTML spec were recently updated to include tag-omission information at point of use; for example: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html#the-body-element -- Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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