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Error Handling and Parsing Bugs (4)

MacIE does not follow the forward compatible parsing rules correctly. It should ignore selectors it cannot understand. This document contains the following stylesheet:

.test>.subhead { color: green; }

This is a CSS2 stylesheet saying that any element with class="subhead" that is a child of an element with class="test should be green. The following paragraph has class="subhead" but it is not a child of an element with class="test. MacIE incorrectly makes it green:

This paragraph should not be green.