- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:37:34 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Hi, Folks- James Graham wrote (on 4/2/08 12:10 PM): > > David Carlisle wrote: >> <a href="/folder" /> >> >> then surely it should generate an empty element, > > Experience suggests that making this kind of apparently-simple syntax > change the /shouldn't/ break pages inevitably /does/ break pages and so > is unacceptable. Unless you can present strong evidence to the contrary, > it think it's safe to assume that "/> generates an empty element in > HTML-served-as-text/html" is not compatible with "don't break the web". I believe the argument that we risk breaking some HTML pages if this rule is applied. I don't believe that the same situation applies to SVG or MathML content. This is why I've proposed the <ext> element, to provide a context in which an XML or XML-like parsing does not risk breaking legacy pages. [1] [1] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Extensions#Proposal_2:_Extensibility_Element Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG, CDF, and WebAPI
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