- From: Leons Petrazickis <leons.petrazickis@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:17:03 -0500
On 11/29/06, Robert Sayre <sayrer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/29/06, Robert Sayre <sayrer at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Ok, I have submitted a bug report. > > > > http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3406 > > > > Let's see what happens. > > Well, that didn't seem too effective. :/ This rigmarole is going to repeat on every site that has converted to XHTML sent as text/html. People are emotionally invested in the idea of trailing slashes. Websites have complex codebases, and going through them removing trailing slashes on singleton elements would be very hard. They've already reaped all the benefits of XHTML -- cleaner, more readable, more maintainable code. There's no incentive for them to agree with you. This is a minor point that we need to give to them. The very idea of HTML5 is to not demand that the Web be scrapped and rewritten. We need the people who have rewritten all their pages so that they validate on the W3C validator -- they have the fire and the zeal and the will to spread our format. We need to make the migration from invalid XHTML to valid HTML5 very, very easy for them. We can't require them to dig through PHP spaghetti. And that means that, no matter how it's achieved, <br/> needs to be valid HTML5. -- Leons Petrazickis
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