Re: Enhancements for HTML 2.1

wmperry@spry.com
Sun, 19 Mar 95 17:05 PST

Peter Flynn writes:
> | Q. Do we get to allow users to put text as direct content of <li>,
> | <dd> etc without the need for an internal <p>?
>
> No! you get only as far as the next <P> before you run into trouble.
> A one-para list item is a degenerate case. And the 3.0 DTD requires
> P, etc., now (thank goodness).
>
> Any move from the browser-makers as to when we can expect support?
> Right now even Arena does this for <ul><li><p>first item</p></li>
> <li><p>second item</p></li></ul>:
>
> *
> first item
> * second item
>
> (I think)

Ugh.. shame on arena. :) Emacs-w3 handles this correctly, and I think
AIR Mosaic does too (don't have access to a windows machine right now, so I
can't check).

-Bill P.