[whatwg] Parsing: handling of </body>, </head>

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jun 20 13:17:26 PDT 2007


On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced
> 
>  http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=917&to=918
> 
> is a good change to make. This changes how things like </body><meta> or 
> </body><style> work in browsers. That doesn't seem wise.

It only changes it if the </body> is at the start of the document. I 
haven't come across that kind of markup in my experience. Is this really a 
problem?

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