Re: 3.1 Introduction (Draft)

On Jul 16, 2007, at 22:28, Laura Carlson wrote:

> Debi Orton wrote:
>
>> Elements are paired,

Actually, *tags* are (generally) paired.

> Related reference:
> Close your tags by Jonathan Snook.
> http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/close_your_tags/

The example given there is not about the kind of omission that the  
current HTML 5 draft allows. The current HTML 5 allows tag omission  
only in cases where HTML 4.01 allowed omission as well. Omitting tags  
in the way permitted by HTML 4.01 and the current HTML 5 draft is  
harmless in IE.

If an author doesn't want to remember which tags are permissible and  
safe to omit, it is perfectly OK not to omit any.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Monday, 16 July 2007 20:39:11 UTC