- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:44:25 -0700
- To: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk
- Cc: mike@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
A better example fo rHenry might be the following anchor tag: <a href=/>Root</a> What does the above do? In one interpretation as per html5 parsing, that could be a hyperlink to the root directory. Henry S. Thompson writes: > Michael[tm] Smith writes: > > > Sure, but then that <a> element is no longer serving any actual purpose in > > your document at all. So it's not a very compelling example of a real use > > case in need of polyglot markup. > > The void element issue comes up all over the place. I just checked a > small subset of the XHTML I have lying around, and 37 out of 100 had > <p></p> > 35 out of a (different) 100 had > <p/> > > I also found 56 instances of XHTML files with one or more of > <title></title> > <a></a> > <td></td> > <strong></strong> > alongside 25 instances of XHTML files with either or both of > <td/> > <title/> > so this is not a corner case. > > ht > -- > Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]
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