On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:14:51 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
If we simply ignore </head> there's no longer a need to append elements
to the head element pointer. In fact, we can remove it. I'm not sure
how much this would complicate conformance checking, but it would
certainly be very nice not to have such strange appending rules for the
limited set of elements that have that now (<link>, <meta>, <style>,
<base>).
Would <body> or elements that have to be in the body but not the head
still implicitly close the head and open a body? In which case I'm not
sure all the appending rules in the spec go away.
All elements and also characters except for elements that can be in the
head would imply a <body> start tag. However, since <link>, <meta>,
<style>, <script>, <base> are not moved to the <head> element by IE7 and
O9 it doesn't seem like they would need to be for compatibility with the
web. This basically means that the "moving elements to <head>" bit in the
specification (as implemented by Firefox and Safari I believe) can be
removed. As a bonus this would actually simplify parsing.
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Anne van Kesteren
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