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Bug 7672 - </p> shouldn't be ignored in "before html", "before head", "in head", "in head noscript", "after head". It should be reprocessed through to "in body" like </br>.
Summary: </p> shouldn't be ignored in "before html", "before head", "in head", "in hea...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Keywords: NE
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Reported: 2009-09-18 09:14 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-09-18 09:14:25 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-before-html-insertion-mode

Comment:
</p> shouldn't be ignored in "before html", "before head", "in head", "in head noscript", "after head". It should be reprocessed through to "in body" like </br>.

Posted from: 83.252.193.59
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-20 10:57:14 UTC 
IIRC, we used to do that, actually, and we removed it either for compat, or because it wasn't required for compat and we were trying to keep the craziness to a minimum, I don't recall which.

It's definitely a conscious choice to have it the way it is now. If there's a concrete reason to change it, please let me know. (Basically, we'd need the URI of a site that breaks because of the way it is now.)