On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
Because I feel it's important. There will be many clients that won't include a tag-soup parser, and markup sent as "html" will thus be lost. So *if* a producer has a choice of using "html" or "xhtml", I think "xhtml" is preferrable, and the spec should say so.
<co-chair-mode>I happen to agree with your position, but I can't in good conscience declare even rough consensus in our favor. Leave it the way it is.</co-chair-mode>
I'd like to understand whether the spec indeed allows tag-soup, or if it actually requires valid HTML (which it seems to do right now). Thus, if people think that they can dump "arbitrary" HTML (such as user-entered) into type="html" elements, they are wrong as far as the spec currently states.
Good point. My impression is that we do currently have SHOULD-level mandate to serve valid HTML; recognizing that most real-world implementors do make a best-effort with tag soup. Anyone who thinks that the language needs improving should suggest improvements. -Tim
