- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@macvirus.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-style@w3.org, "Eric A. Meyer" <eam3@po.cwru.edu>
> >Make the whole suite HTML 4.0 strict with DOCTYPEs. > :-) > > There's a bit of debate over this one, actually. I have at least > one request to purposely leave out </P> tags in order to force tests > of HTML parsing. I'm still turning that one over in my head-- is > this appropriate for a CSS test? I can see reasons for and against, > and haven't yet made up my mind. Optional end tags like </P> and </LI> have no effect on whether the suite is valid HTML. They are good practice, do affect and improve CSS rendering in some user agents, and incidentally, are a start toward well-formed XML. Because many existing HTML documents don't have them, I understand why there could be debate. The suggestion here is only to set a good example by making the suite valid strict HTML 4.0. This is a separate question from matched end tags. Susan Lesch
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