Re: HTML 3.0 suggestion

Rainer Klute (klute@nads.de)
Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:07:53 +0100

>just a question: if a HTML 3.0 demanded that List items were
>"containerized", what percentage of HTML documents already in circulation
>would be rendered incorrectly? 80%? 90%?
>
>INsuring backwards compatability is the number one concern.

That's no problem at all. If th closing </li> isn't there
explicitly, it's still there *implicitly*. For example,

<ul>
<li><p>foo
<li><p>bar
</ul>

and

<ul>
<li><p>foo</p></li>
<li><p>bar</p></li>
</ul>

are equivalent.

Best regards
Rainer Klute

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