[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM

[Anne van Kesteren]

Jim Ley wrote:
> This is clearly an example of how existing browsers are 
> non-conformant,

Doing otherwise would result in a lot of broken pagges and probably less
market share for the browser.


> and simply making it conformant just blesses browsers in the future
> to continue violating specs safe in the knowledge that the spec will
> get changed to suit them, rather than the reverse.

I don't think that is true. Although specifications will evolve when 
they get feedback that particular sections just don't work.


> Exactly what's happened with CSS, do we really want to do it with
> HTML too?

I guess. As we can't really change the behavior of HTML anymore on
todays web. We can standardize it though so that the results you get are 
not "huh",  but explainable.


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  Anne van Kesteren
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