On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't understand what you mean by "it's not allowed". If it parses > without an error then how can it not be allowed? Or are you pointing > out that the spec is inconsistent? > > Why would one want to do <form /> anyway?
That's exactly what I mean by a grey area, it's one of those things that you're not supposed to do, it's "not allowed" but they allow it to parse and pass because it's so popular and because it was so widely used prior to HTML5 via XHTML from XML, that and it's converted to <tag> which is perfectly valid in some circumstance. I don't quite remember if there was intent to make it fully illegal but right now it's a grey area in that it parses but you are not supposed to do it because it's "not allowed" in HTML5. TL;DR <form /> -> <form> = valid but could lead to parse error because of nesting issues. <form /> is not legal in HTML5 but parsed and "passed" because of syntactic sugar and XML. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
