- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:52:09 +0200
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:34:36 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:22:14 +0200, Julian Reschke >> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >>> On the other hand, what, except ideological reasons, stops us from >>> allowing >>> >>> <tagname></tagname> >>> >>> as well? >> <br></br> "means" <br><br> due to legacy parsing. > > Does that apply to new elements as well? No, but it would be confusing to allow a end tag only for a subset of the void elements. (Besides that, people will start trying to put stuff between the tags, of course.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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