Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@pandora.be> writes:

> So, if I get this correctly, it is not legal to put text, or inline
> elements (text formatting, SPAN) directly into a BODY tag.

I'm too lazy to check, but that's my recollection too. Also, IIRC the
w3c HTML validator will warn on these cases.

> None of these tags are implied. Yet, people do it all the time.
>
> What gives? Am I misunderstanding the spec, or a people doing it wrong?

People are doing it wrong. But since it mostly works, they'll keep on
doing it. This also goes for all the other places where non-blocks
aren't allowed.

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