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Re: MicroXML

• From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org List" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:58:37 -0800

On Dec 16, 2010, at 02:23, Michael Kay wrote:

> On 16/12/2010 09:37, David Carlisle wrote:
>> On 16/12/2010 08:15, rjelliffe wrote:
>>> So is that IMDB behaviour being adopted by HTML5, too?
>> 
>> yes
> 
> This is really scary. One guy makes a spelling mistake in his HTML and the rest of us pay the price, just because his site is popular.

It's not made just because of IMDB. Rather, the behavior that <image> is an alias of <img> is ancient. I don't know how long back it dates, but I expect it goes all the way back to Mosaic.

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

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  • Re: MicroXML
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