- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:07:18 +1000
Ian Hickson wrote: >>Would it be at all possible to have this SHORTTAG feature implemented in >>UAs these days? ... > > Too many documents of all kinds use the XHTML syntax, sadly. Hmmm. That's what I suspected. > Mozilla, several _years_ ago, used to parse <foo/> in HTML as <foo></foo>. Even > then (we're talking like 2000 or something) it was so common to find pages > with that kind of markup that Mozilla had to stop doing it. Now it's bound > to be an even worse problem. Oh well; I guess there will never be a main stream UA that fully supports SGML, and thus HTML. > It's a lost battle, sadly. That's why fantasai turned off SHORTTAG NET in > the SGML declaration for WHATWG. Fair enough; I guess it would only be useful as an historical curiosity anyway, considering that most authors have never heard of such a thing and wouldn't use it. In fact, neither had until I read your XHTML advocacy document. I had thought that given a brand new doctype, it would be possible to enable it using a DOCTYPE switch, but then realised that these documents will more than likely be built and tested environments comprising mostly IE tag-soup developers, and thus authors will more than likely to screw it up anyway. -- Lachlan Hunt http://www.lachy.id.au/ lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
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