- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:44:00 -0500
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Henry S. Thompson scripsit: > 3) 'void' elements [3] -- the name is non-standard, and the > requirement: > > "Polyglot markup uses the minimized tag syntax for void elements, > e.g. <br/>, rather than the alternative syntax <br></br>." > > seems unnecessary to me. . . Void is not synonymous with empty, for an empty element may be merely contingently empty, whereas a void element is necessarily empty. However, the br element is a special case even among void elements, because older browsers interpret </br> as <br/>, making <br></br> unusable. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org All "isms" should be "wasms". --Abbie
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