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
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