Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2011-07-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Roger Hågensen wrote: > > Is there a need for say a ? (short for paragraph break) default > behavior being the same as two . Isn't that just two paragraphs separate from each other? ... ... > Then again getting folks to change would be hard, so maybe a and > wou

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2011-05-14 Thread yuhong
Kornel Lesiński wrote: > > Parsing of non-HTML elements is not interoperable between IE and non-IE > browsers. IE already supports self-closing syntax on prefixed elements, > but other browsers don't: > > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%3Cbody%3

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2011-05-03 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2011-05-03 00:47, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:18:52 -, Ian Hickson wrote: For example, markup such as the following is sadly common: Hello world! I have therefore not changed the spec in response to this request. On Fri

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2011-05-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:18:52 -, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > For example, markup such as the following is sadly common: > > > > Hello world! > > > > I have therefore not changed the spec in response to this request. > > I've checked www.dotne

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-31 Thread William F Hammond
Ian Hickson writes: > On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, William F Hammond wrote: >> >> In the spec at 8.1.2.1 (6) (for the text/html serialization): The section number refers to the W3C version at http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ >>Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the >>element is

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-31 Thread Aryeh Gregor
2010/12/31 Kornel Lesiński : > I think HTML5 can specify that a fixed set of old HTML elements has to be > closed according to HTML rules, but all other elements support self-closing > syntax like XML. That just makes the HTML syntax even more complicated and confusing. At least at present it's co

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-31 Thread Kornel Lesiński
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:18:52 -, Ian Hickson wrote: For example, markup such as the following is sadly common: Hello world! I have therefore not changed the spec in response to this request. I've checked www.dotnetdotcom.org dataset looking for …, excluding

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, William F Hammond wrote: > > In the spec at 8.1.2.1 (6) (for the text/html serialization): > >Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the >element is a foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F >SOLIDUS character (/). This character has n

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-27 Thread William F Hammond
Bjoern Hoehrmann writes: > * William F Hammond wrote: >>Does anyone seriously think that "" is an ordinary open tag? > > They do if it's like in `http://example.org/>`. Well, the spec (w3 version) has detailed parsing rules for text/html in section 8.2. I _think_ those rules would understand th

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* William F Hammond wrote: >Does anyone seriously think that "" is an ordinary open tag? They do if it's like in `http://example.org/>`. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dageb

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread William F Hammond
>> For example, while it is true that major browsers seem to treat "" >> as an open tag, the relevant question for backward comptatibility is >> whether anyone has been relying on the idea that "" can be used to >> begin a non-empty paragraph. > > Sites unfortunately do things like that so we cann

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/26/10 4:12 PM, William F Hammond wrote: For example, while it is true that major browsers seem to treat "" as an open tag, the relevant question for backward comptatibility is whether anyone has been relying on the idea that "" can be used to begin a non-empty paragraph. Sites rely on that

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:12:16 +0200, William F Hammond wrote: [Originally mailed to whatwg on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:24:49 -0400, but blocked from the list due to subscription troubles] Glad it worked out now! [...] For example, while it is true that major browsers seem to treat "" as an ope

[whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread William F Hammond
[Originally mailed to whatwg on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:24:49 -0400, but blocked from the list due to subscription troubles] In the spec at 8.1.2.1 (6) (for the text/html serialization): Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may b

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:24:49 +0200, William F Hammond wrote: For example, while it is true that major browsers seem to treat "" as an open tag, the relevant question for backward comptatibility is whether anyone has been relying on the idea that "" can be used to begin a non-empty paragraph.