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Re: Deployability of XMLised HTML - authoritative survey?[redu

• From: Mike Sokolov <sokolov@ifactory.com>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:49:00 -0400

I assume it's a typo, but that document is dated next year

On 03/16/2012 09:49 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
> On 16/03/2012 13:06, Dan Brickley wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I understand from anecdotal reports and my own experiments that it is
>> possible to get most (recent?) browsers to sensibly interpret and render
>> well formed XML that "looks a lot like" HTML. With much of HTML, this is
>> just a matter of matching case and closing</LI>  etc. The treatment of
>> HTML's<HR>  and<BR>  as<HR />  and<BR />  is, it seems, workable.
>> I'd very much like to hear that these anecdotes are true, and that
>> someone somewhere has undertaken a more comprehensive survey of browser
>> behaviour. I guess something like this must be going on in the
>> HTML-futures area -- if so a URL pointer would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks for any references,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
>
> There are lots of gotchas and special cases to beware of see
>
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html 
>
>
> David
>
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