- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:22:29 +0200
On Nov 30, 2006, at 00:18, James Graham wrote: > I tentatively support the idea that trailing slashes on > "singleton"[1] elements should not be a parse error. Me, too, and I'm past the tentative phase. > I don't think it has any actual technical merit OTOH, the blog.whatwg.org WordPress lipsticking drill was a total waste of time from a technical point of view. It was purely about public relations and politics. > but I think it will be helpful in getting developer mindshare; a > lot of people have drunk the "Zeldman Koolaid" and have the ideas > of XHTML, clean markup, CSS, and conformance to standards in > general all mushed together in their brain[2]. For these people > (who I think represent the upper quartile of web developers in > terms of commitment to good markup) the trailing slash in empty > elements is the syntax of a new generation - it is a symbol that > represents everything that has changed in web design since 1996 - > as intrinsically useless as a fashionable designer label but just > as seductive. +1 Propaganda efforts are better directed at other issues than undoing the Zeldmanian />. > [1] I find that name quite confusing as it suggests there should > only be one in the entire document. They are void elements now. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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