[whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and optional tag inference

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
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> Does any What WG document specify what optional tag inference features a 
> conformance checker for the text/html flavor is required to implement 
> and what elements are required to be considered empty?

This is now defined here:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing

(Yes I know you know. But I'm replying to all these e-mails, since I 
promised I would...)


> Should What WG require tags that were optional in HTML 4 to be 
> mandatory?

Optional tags seem like quite a useful and harmless feature. The spec 
still allows them for now.

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