[whatwg] Handling <title> inside <body>

Wed Nov 12 08:51:34 PST 2008

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> 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.
>

DOM 1 seems to disagree with that.

>
>> | 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.
>

Why?

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