[whatwg] On tag inference

Blake Kaplan mrbkap at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 12:22:02 PDT 2005


Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 20:48, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
>> End tag inference
> ...
>> head: ANY BUT script, style, meta, link, object, title, isindex, base
> 
> I added bgsound to the elements that do not close head.

For compatibility, Mozilla has to allow userdefined tags as leaves in 
the head of a document. People use them (at least for XBL bindings (at 
least that's what the bug that caused us to implement this behavior said)).

Why should this change, especially considering that IE allows this?
-- 
Blake Kaplan



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