[whatwg] Problem in the Section "4 Elements of HTML => 4.4 Sections => 4.4.2 The Section element

Thu Sep 13 16:56:44 PDT 2012

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela at cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>> And I suppose by weird formation you mean the example that starts with
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE Html>
>> <Html
>>  ><Head
>>    ><Title
>>      >Graduation Ceremony Summer 2022</Title
>>    ></Head
>>  ><Body
>>    ><H1
>>
>>
>>> can anybody tell me if this is known/on purpous
>>
>>
>> My guess is that it's an accidental result of some software used to maintain
>> the document. It's not incorrect, just odd, because it deviates from the
>> coding style used otherwise, both in the use of spaces between tag close (>)
>> and in casing (capitalized tag names).
>
> No, it's intentional.  Hixie purposely varied his style across
> examples, to show that certain variances in the syntax were allowed
> and perfectly fine.

Might be worth a note in this instance to stop people from wondering?

Silvia.