[whatwg] Tag Soup: Blocks-in-inlines

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, liorean wrote:
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Interesting summary of the possibilities.


> Well, the obvious problems with [not caring about creating duplicate IDs 
> in the face of misnested tags] are for things like ::before in CSS or 
> getElementById in the DOM. We have two different #Y elements, not a 
> single one.

I actually don't think that's a big deal. In practice both Safari and 
Mozilla do this and it hasn't been a big problem.


> Anyway, what I'm saying here is that there are a lot of different ways 
> to tackle this, and none of them does the right thing in all situations. 
> Particularly the DOM is hard to get a good representation of, because 
> the source breaks the single parent relation. I don't know which one 
> would be best from a backwards compatibility perspective, but I'd like 
> to see as simple a solution as possible.

Agreed.

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