On Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 10:05:01 PM, David wrote: DW> Chris Lilley wrote: >> that img is an empty element. Its not part of the image url. It does >> not indicate malformed html. DW> It is malformed HTML. Actually, no. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> DW> It is served as text/html, as allowed by XHTML 1.0 DW> and XHTML in DW> Appendix C compatibility mode (non-normative) DW> relies on typical browser handling DW> of malformed HTML [A] (which doesn't, in general, generate the same DW> parse tree as a real XHTML user agent). So, making it non-well-formed by omitting the trailing slash on an empty element would improve things, in your opinion? DW> It shouldn't cause a problem on mainstream browsers, but it is not DW> valid, http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.html "This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!" DW> and there is an increasing belief in the HTML community that DW> Appendix C mode was a very bad idea. Now, there I agree. Appendix C was tremendously short sighted. DW> [A] and mishandle technically valid, but rarely supported HTML features. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CGReceived on Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:54:03 GMT
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