On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Henri Sivonen
<hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
On Dec 15, 2010, at 23:10, James Clark wrote:
> I believe the standard should provide a parsing mode (and a way of triggering that parsing mode) that does not attempt to be 100% backwards compatible with bizarre and confusing browser bugs.
Who would this benefit and how? If you write valid HTML, you don't hit this stuff.
I want it to be valid HTML (in standards mode) to supply an end-tag for any element (including <br>) ie if <x/> is valid, then <x></x> is valid.
I would also like it to be valid HTML (in standards mode) to use empty element syntax for any element with empty content (I suspect this is more problematic) ie if <x></x> is valid, then <x/> should be valid.
This would simplify things for authors and for software generating HTML. It would also facilitate polyglot markup.
James
