- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:51:31 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adam Kuehn <akuehn@nc.rr.com>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Adam Kuehn wrote: > > Ah, I see. I misunderstood your earlier post. Even changing case and > closing tags you do not regard as a minor change. Indeed, some of the most "minor" of changes have been the most insidious in terms of introducing errors into the spec over the past few years. > Here I think is where the fundamental disagreement lies. Rather than > "neophilic adherence to fashionable syntaxes", I think most would phrase > it as "advocating careful coding practices". But if the majority of the > WG feels that the risks outweigh any benefit, then it doesn't much > matter which spin one puts on it, does it? I don't understand why adding "</P>" in that example is good. How is that more "careful"? That end tag is optional in HTML4. All it does is increase the number of nodes in the DOM. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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