[whatwg] Why is @scoped required for <style> as flow content?

Sun Mar 27 00:21:44 PDT 2011

Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> On 3/25/11 9:49 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
>> More precisely, under what circumstances does
>> an author have control over the very start of<body>, but not over
>> <head>?
>
> I can see how some sort of template setups might have that, where the
> <head> is controlled by the overall site but the <body> is controlled
> by whoever is responsible for that particular page.

It is a rather common setup in websites that offer the public an opportunity 
to publish for free. I've been told eBay is an example of that: you can only 
affect some parts of the <body>. Such setups seem to be increasingly common. 
They may also exist in "normal" websites, e.g. when technically managed by 
an external service provider, with limited editing possibilities for content 
providers.

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