[whatwg] On tag inference

[Henri Sivonen]

On Sep 9, 2005, at 22:22, Blake Kaplan wrote:

> 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,

With IE?

> 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)).

How can using them with XBL be necessary for compatibility with IE 
considering that IE does not have XBL? Do those who use XBL with custom 
elements use something else in IE (HTC perhaps)?

XBL is not commonly used on the Web, so it does not look like a very 
strong legacy use case. Was it just one bug reporter alleging the need?

> Why should this change,

Actually, allowing custom stuff in head is a change from Firefox 1.0.x.

> especially considering that IE allows this?

Opera and Safari (like Firefox 1.0.x) put custom elements in body.

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