- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:38:53 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > > [snip] > > > Any closing tag could be easily replaced with </> because it's clear > > in XHTML anyway which starting tag it should be matched with... > > Oh, if only ... I have never understood why this simple shorthand was > omitted from HTML. I suppose it's too late for it to happen now ... It has been in HTML since HTML2. It just has never been implemented (except by the validator). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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