Re: Tags lacking a terminating '>' are spotted

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

> In fact my local copy of HTML.dcl _was_ hacked to say SHORTTAG NO.
> Trouble is, I'm the one that hacked it, and I'd forgotten that.
> The _official_ SGML declaration says "SHORTTAG YES", thus explicitly
> requiring HTML processors to support these features that B.3.7 says not
> to use.
>
> Is it just me, or is that odd?

SHORTTAG YES is there to allow <input type="checkbox" checked> instead of
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked">.

-- 
Liam Quinn