[whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and optional tag inference
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Wed Feb 28 17:49:00 PST 2007
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> 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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