- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:23:17 +0000
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 5 Feb 2010, at 14:14, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> 1. From an aesthetic point of view, it is just an ugly mass of code > > Less ugly, to me, than end tag escaping. Tag escaping is simple, valid, and doesn't depend on incorrect behaviour. >> 2. It depends on browsers implementing HTML 4.01 incorrectly in order >> to work > > HTML4 warns against using </> - doesn't expect correct implementation. HTML 4 warns against *authors* using </> because there are a lot of incorrect implementations out there. It doesn't exclude the possibility of correct implementations. >> 3. It throws warnings in the validator > > Of course. The congratulations message counts more, though. ;-) And using the standard method gives neither warnings nor errors. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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