- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:21:46 +0100
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:15:53 +0100, Sam Ruby <rubys at intertwingly.net> wrote: >> I do not think it's a good idea to make the trailing slash conforming. >> Although it is harmless, it provides no additional benefit at all and >> it creates the false impression that the syntax actually does something. >> The fact is that authors already try things like <div/>, <p/> and even >> <a/>. I've seen all of those examples in the wild. See, for instance, >> the source of the XML 1.0 spec (and many others) which claim to be >> XHTML as text/html, littered with plenty of <a/> tags all throughout. > > If these are common, and implemented interoperably, then what is the > harm? An example of something that is NOT implemented interoperably is > <script src="..."/>. What do you mean with implemented interoperably? They are all treated as if they are just a start tag. (So they are actually treated identically to the <script src=""/> case, except for some versions of Safari and Opera and maybe Firefox which do what some people might expect for <script src="" /> ...) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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