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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-after-head-insertion-mode Comment: </p>text would ignore </p>, but it does not on IE8. Posted from: 216.239.45.4
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: Well... IE8 (and Safari) insert an empty P element node, but other than that, the result is the same. The spec intentionally doesn't reproduce this particular behaviour on the principle that since it apparently isn't required for compatibility, going for the saner behaviour (consistent with most other end tags) is better.
For the sake of simplicity (and i don't expect to see any visual difference either), I am fine with this resolution.