[whatwg] Unsafe SGML minimizations

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> I think the text/html flavor of HTML5 should not allow the following SGML
> minimization features (which are theoretically allowed in HTML 4), because
> each of them causes problems in at least one of Opera, Firefox and Safari.
> 
>  * <>
>  * </>

Agreed.

>  * tagc omission ie. <foo<bar>...</bar</foo>

HTML5 requires this at the moment. It wasn't clear what should happen in 
the cases given above if we don't allow TAGC ommission. Mozilla at least 
has plans to implement </bar</foo> anyway, and already does <foo<bar>.

>  * <foo/bar/

Agreed.

>  * attribute name omission (except for the well-known "boolean attributes")

Agreed, I still need to actually take this into account though.

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