- From: Jukka Korpela <jukka.korpela@tieke.fi>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:34:04 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
dody suria wijaya wrote: > i've seen google don't close <tr> and <td> tags with </tr> and </td>. > probably to safe some precious bytes. and browser don't seems to > care. is it still html compliant? It formally complies with HTML specifications up to and including HTML 4.01, but XHTML 1.0 makes closing tags obligatory for all elements. On the practical side, some widely used browsers still choke on some constructs when the "optional" closing tags for table cells are omitted. The effects vary from completely messing up table presentation to just ignoring some CSS rules. In a word, it is poor economy to save those precious bytes. This is basically about good HTML authoring principles in general, so it's something that might be best discussed in the Usenet group news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html . Naturally, good authoring has an impact on accessibility too, especially since if a page gets all messed up, people will disabilities will often have great difficulties since they probably cannot switch browser as easily as other people might. -- Jukka Korpela TIEKE Tietoyhteiskunnan kehittämiskeskus ry Finnish Information Society Development Centre Salomonkatu 17 A, 10th floor, FIN - 00100 HELSINKI, FINLAND Phone: +358 9 4763 0397 Fax: +358 9 4763 0399 http://www.tieke.fi jukka.korpela@tieke.fi
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