- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:41:47 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Well I'm d@mned. Thank you, Ian, for pointing that out. When you say "never been implemented", does this include works in progress such as Mozilla, Opera, IE6+ and so on, and if so, is there any consistency in how they interpret </> ? Philip Taylor -------- Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > >>Mikko Rantalainen wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >> >>>Any closing tag could be easily replaced with </> because it's clear >>>in XHTML anyway which starting tag it should be matched with... >> >>Oh, if only ... I have never understood why this simple shorthand was >>omitted from HTML. I suppose it's too late for it to happen now ... > > > It has been in HTML since HTML2. It just has never been implemented > (except by the validator). >
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