- From: Brad Neuberg <bkn3@columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:58:08 -0700
At 12:46 PM 4/25/2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: >What should text/html flavor conformance checkers say about <foo />? > >Silently treat as <foo>> as per SGML? >Silently treat as <foo> as per real world? >Report a warning? >Report an error? > >What about <foo/>? > >I am leaning towards reporting an error. Unfortunately, <foo /> is the real world way of "hacking" XHTML support into IE, since IE will belch if you give <foo/>. You also have to serve it up as text/html for IE..... You should probably transform it into what people expect it in the real world, which is turning <foo /> into <foo>. Brad >-- >Henri Sivonen >hsivonen at iki.fi >http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > Brad Neuberg, bkn3 at columbia.edu Senior Software Engineer, Rojo Networks Weblog: http://www.codinginparadise.org ===================================================================== Check out Rojo, an RSS and Atom news aggregator that I work on. Visit http://rojo.com for more info. Feel free to ask me for an invite! Rojo is Hiring! If you're interested in RSS, Weblogs, Social Networking, Java, Open Source, etc... then come work with us at Rojo. If you recommend someone and we hire them you'll get a free iPod! See http://www.rojonetworks.com/JobsAtRojo.html.
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