- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:11:49 +0200
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns wrote: >>> Just to throw out an example: what would happen if we added the >>> self-closing syntax to text/html and actually made it meaningful. >>> Presumably this would degrade gracefully since existing content would >>> not end their opening element tags with a "/>". Just a thought for >>> another example. >> >> I don't see how this can be done. The following document would have >> different results in old and new UAs: >> >> ---- >> <b />X >> ---- > > Do you have some citations for that document. In other words does a > document like that exist in reality? How many document exist like that > in reality? How many would break severely if the self-closing tag > interpretation was implied? That's not the question. The question is how many documents *will* exist if you legalize that syntax. For example, <script src="foo"/> and <textarea/> seems like a nice simplification, and it will break the document in old UAs. dao
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