Re: [whatwg] Empty elements

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Feb 15, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: We're stuck with it forever as well, since most of the Dashboard widgets  use <script src=""/> in HTML. You can say we're wrong in the spec,  but we won't be able to change it. :( I think we need a dashboard mode, given that this is incompatible with all other browsers. I wonder if Mozilla changed it or if we were just confused about what it was doing. We can leave the dashboard mode just for HTML4 and ignore it for HTML5 doctype. In fact, all the widgets I found declare no doctype so dashboard mode can apply to quirks mode only. That, I'm afraid, is your problem. You may wish to consider having a  dashboard mode. <canvas>x</canvas> is also parsed differently in Safari  than in Mozilla and Opera; again, you may need a Dashboard parse mode if  you ever want to switch to the HTML5 way of parsing <canvas>. (Existing  Web content has started relying on the HTML5 way.) Requiring a close tag is technically better (for compatibility with browsers that don't support <canvas>). But it is somewhat frustrating to have to adapt to someone else's incompatible attempt to copy our feature. In any case we may as well start getting the system and example widgets changed, since in both cases the compatible syntax <script src=""></script> and <canvas></canvas> will work in WebKit. I'll file some bugs. Regards, Maciej