- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:21:07 +0100
- To: Horváth Róbert <rs@programozo.hu>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 3 Jun 2004, at 00:44, Horváth Róbert wrote:
> dear validator list :)
>
> as in the w3schools examples (
> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp ) i wanted to make my html
> more universal with trailing slashes.
Trailing slashes do not make HTML more universal. In HTML "<foo />" is
roughly the same as "<foo>>". Depending on where you put them, they
either tell your HTML document to display ">" characters scattered
about, or they make it invalid (in the case of telling it to display a
> somewhere where it is not allowed (like inside <head>)).
In XHTML they mean something rather different, and given the current
level of support for XHTML, switching to that language hardly makes a
document more "universal" - Internet Explorer doesn't support it
(except if you pretend its not XHTML but broken HTML, making it
pointless using XHTML in the first place for the majority)!
--
David Dorward
<http://dorward.me.uk/>
<http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>
Received on Thursday, 3 June 2004 04:22:31 UTC