Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:51:05 +0100, timeless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Tommy Thorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This matches Internet Explorer and Opera, but not Firefox and
Safari. Then
again, it looks like Firefox and Safari ignore all </br> tags.
if we're both able to get away with ignoring all </br> tags, wouldn't
the ideal forward path be to make always ignored?
Firefox and Safari do not ignore it in quirks mode. I rather keep the
amount of differences between quirks and standards mode to a minimum
(by doing what Opera and Internet Explorer do) than increase it.
Aha, I hadn't even thought about quirks vs. non-quirks. I definitely
agree that keeping the differences to a minimum is a good thing.
Also, it's not like the specified parsing algorithm ignores </br>
completely. All the insertion modes from "before html" to "in body" have
special handling for it, except "after head". This makes it look more
like someone just forgot to put that </br> handling in "after head" than
like a deliberate decision to ignore the </br>.
For the record, the following markup:
<!doctype html><body></br>
results in:
<html>
<head>
<body>
<br>
with the current algorithm, because the "in body" insertion mode treats
</br> as if it was a <br>.
