Re: Void elements in HTML

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> What I meant is:
>>
>> - no new void elements
>>
>> - allow empty element notation (thus "<command></command>" and 
>> "<command/>" are equivalent) for all new and future elements.
>>
>> This aligns the notation for new elements with XML.
> 
> And makes them completely different from existing elements, as I tried 
> to point out. Which is utterly confusing.

What's also utterly confusing is that

   <br/>

parses just like

   <br>

May be not confusing to experts like yourself, but certainly for many 
authors.

BR, Julian