Re: FYI: Why Web Standards Matter

On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 5:56:25 AM, you wrote:
> > "In XHTML, even "empty" tags like <br> and <img> must close themselves
> >  by including a space and a forward slash at the very end of the tag"
> > 
> > Not very good usage of "must". It is a good idea to, but you don't
> > *have* to.
> 
> I don't understand you.  If it's X(HT)ML, empty elements (she conflates
> elements and tags here, too) _must_ be closed

Sorry, I was referring to "must include a space". Empty elements don't
*have* to, if you aren't following the HTML backwards-compatible
guidelines. It was an extremely picky comment though :)

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Tom Gilder
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Received on Tuesday, 20 August 2002 06:50:40 UTC