- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:01:43 -0500
- To: "Peter Foti (PeterF)" <PeterF@SystolicNetworks.com>
- cc: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> Also, if <br /> in HTML was equivalent to <br>>, then that would seem to
> indicate that every web browser out there is broken, and should display this
> as a line break followed by the greater than symbol.
That's correct. Most of the existing web browsers do not have HTML
parsers. They have tag soup parsers that make at best a token attempt to parse
HTML correctly (containment, NET, comments, the list of things that are parsed
incorrectly goes on and on).
> I don't know what
> logic you are using to determine that <br /> = <br>>, but it seems flawed
> to me.
"<br /" by itself is equivalent to "<br>" in HTML because the DTD enables the
SGML shorthand feature for this. Please do read the existing (extensive)
archived discussion of this and related issues.
Boris
--
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The
question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough
to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is
that it is not crazy enough.
-- Niels Bohr
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