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 pbr ? (short for paragraph break) default behavior being the same as two br. Isn't that just two paragraphs separate from each other? p ... /p p ... /p Then again getting folks to change would be hard, so maybe a cp

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:

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

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

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-31 Thread Aryeh Gregor
2010/12/31 Kornel Lesiński kor...@geekhood.net: 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

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-31 Thread William F Hammond
Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch 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

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 no

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

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

[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

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 p/ as an open tag, the relevant question for backward comptatibility is whether anyone has been relying on the idea that p/ can be used to begin a non-empty paragraph. Sites rely on

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 p/ as an open tag, the relevant question for backward comptatibility is whether anyone has been relying on the idea that p/ can be used to begin a non-empty paragraph. Sites unfortunately do things like that so we cannot

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-09-26 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* William F Hammond wrote: Does anyone seriously think that foo/ is an ordinary open tag? They do if it's like in `a href=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