[whatwg] Handling <title> inside <body>

Tue Nov 11 23:21:02 PST 2008

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Garrett Smith wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, we have little choice in the matter. Scripting and XML 
> > both allow you to unambiguously create highly non-conforming DOMs, 
> > e.g. with <title> elements as the root element and <html> elements as 
> > children of <input> elements. The renderer has to deal with all such 
> > DOMs.
> 
> What does XML has to do with any of this?

XML can denote arbitrarily nested DOMs.

> A script that adds an HTML element to a INPUT element should cause an 
> hierarchy exception to be raised.

No, it shouldn't.

> | Since user agents may vary in how they handle error conditions,
> | authors and users must not rely on specific error recovery behavior.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#notes-invalid-docs

This was one of the biggest mistakes in HTML4, and HTML5 does not make 
that mistake again.

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