12578 2011-05-01 12:28:51 +0000 The note says: "Omitting an element's start tag does not mean the element is not present; it is implied, but it is still there." 1.) Before the word "start tag" should be an "optional", because in many (or all) other cases omitting the start tag results i 2011-08-04 05:16:23 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#optional-tags P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 47832 0 contributor 2011-05-01 12:28:51 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#optional-tags Comment: The note says: "Omitting an element's start tag does not mean the element is not present; it is implied, but it is still there." 1.) Before the word "start tag" should be an "optional", because in many (or all) other cases omitting the start tag results in an element not being present even if the appropriate end tag is present. 2.) Before the word "implied" should be an "only", because the critical information is not that an element exist *although* it is implied, but that an element exists even if it is *only* implied. Posted from: 92.225.90.210 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1 51597 1 ian 2011-07-28 01:23:20 +0000 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: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: I'm not sure I agree with #2. I don't really understand what "only" would mean there. With #1, "optional" doesn't seem to be defined in this context, and so doesn't help any more than "omit". I tried to clarify it though. 51598 2 contributor 2011-07-28 01:23:39 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6335. Check-in comment: clarification http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6334&to=6335 53691 3 mike 2011-08-04 05:16:23 +0000 mass-move component to LC1