- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:34:20 +0300
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jul 29, 2008, at 14:22, Sam Ruby wrote: > Not too long ago, the presumption was that trailing soliduses in > tags must always be treated as an error, lest the web would break. > This was replaced by the assumption that trailing soliduses in all > but a few, well defined places would be treated as an error. > > Yes, some people here have the assumption that namespace prefixes > must always be treated as an error, lest the web would break. Making /> on void elements conforming and supporting arbitrary namespace prefix declarations are different issues. Parsers had to skip the solidus anyway for compatibility, so it was only a matter of defining what's in error. However, the prefix issue is about adding (inefficient) processing beyond just deciding which processing steps emit errors. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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