[html5] Transparent content model

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Jordan Robert Dobson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Jordan Robert Dobson wrote:
> >>
> >> Can you recommend a reference where I can read up more on what a
> >> transparent element is? I think I get it... but not 100%.
> >
> > The formal reference is the spec, but that might not help. :-)
> >
> >   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/content-models.html#transparent-content-models
> 
> This URL isn't working for me by the way. Here's a screen of what I
> saw: http://cld.ly/902nu

Yeah, the multipage stuff depends on my scripts working well, and 
sometimes they don't.


> > The basic idea is just that if in the markup you were to take the tags for
> > the transparent element out, and it would still be valid, then it's ok:
> >
> >   <p>Foo <ins> bar </ins> </p>
> >
> > ...becomes:
> >
> >   <p>Foo       bar        </p>
> >
> > Does that make sense?
> 
> Yes that does.. thank you very much! I think it was just the error you 
> had before (when the page was loading) that mostly confused me. Your 
> example clears it up. :)
> 
> I think I understand your mention of the object tag being partly 
> transparent since if you removed the object tag it would be invalid if 
> it contained a source tag because source wouldn't have a proper parent 
> tag? Is that right?

<param>, not <source>, but yeah. You'd have to strip out the <param>s as 
well as the <object> when doing the above test.

Cheers,
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