Thanks, hasather.
MikeFoster wrote:I don't think it "looks" like it
Does
http://html5.ouvaton.org/valid.html "look" like valid valid HTML 4.01 Strict? (It is:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fhtml5.ouvaton.org%2Fvalid.html&ss)
Strictly speaking, a HTML document is not "missing" anything just because tags like <body>, <html> and </p> are not indicated explicitly in the source; there's only one place to put them anyway (in a document conforming to the specification, that is), which has led to their being defined as strictly optional in any (at least reasonably "recent") version of HTML (excluding XHTML, of course).
HTML5 will disallow most of the uncommon constructions illustrated in
http://html5.ouvaton.org/valid.html, which means that a random valid HTML5 document, unlike a random valid HTML4 document (or XHTML 1.0 sent as text/html, I should add), is actually likely to be rendered correctly. As for the optional tags and quotes, these will remain optional, so there is no need to remove/add optional items or change one's coding habits.
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