- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 01:33:01 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Nick Kew wrote: > > > This page was sent as text/html but uses tags of the form <a name="foo" > > > /> which does not actually close the <a> tag in conforming HTML4 > > > user-agents (I'm using safari 1.2.2). > > Indeed, this is why HTML4 is better-suited to the web today than XHTML. Well, the conclusion is surely correct, but <a name="foo"/> is actually quite tricky in HTML4. Technically, it closes the <a> _tag_ all too well. And while it does not close the <a> _element_, the user will usually get a fairly confusing error message. Few authors understand that e.g. <a name="foo"/>/ is perfectly valid HTML4. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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