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by mg 497 days ago
I would say <style> in the body is so widely used that one can call it "generally accepted". Google, Amazon, Wikipedia ... look at the source of any website, and you will see a lot of <style> elements in the body.

The reason is that it often makes the structure of websites much more logical. Often you want to define a piece of content, its layout and behavior in one specific place, not spread out across multiple places. Then the best solution is to have a <style> element right before the other DOM elements for that piece of content.

And for the html editor, it saves the user from thinking about one more element (<head>) which does not do anything that is visible to the user.