- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:31:43 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On 11/16/2011 11:23 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>
> '''The sequence <FOO /> can be interpreted in at least two
> different ways, depending on the DOCTYPE of the document.
> For HTML 4.01 Strict, the '/' terminates the tag <FOO (with
> an implied '>').'''
>
> The above sounds as if it is only with STRICT doctype that '/'
> terminates the tag. Whereas the correct thing is that it is the content
> model of the body element that differs depending on STRICT and
> TRANSITIONAL doctype.
True, and additionally it speaks too rigidly of HTML 4.01 also when the
document validated was something else, for example HTML 3.2 or ISO-HTML.
I've changed the explanation in validator's development version to this:
The sequence <FOO /> can be interpreted in at least two different
ways, depending on the DOCTYPE of the document. For example for
HTML 4.01 and earlier, the '/' terminates the tag <FOO (with an
implied '>'). However, since many browsers don't interpret it this
way, even in the presence of a "strict" DOCTYPE, it is best to
avoid it completely in pure HTML documents and reserve its use
solely for those written in XHTML.
Received on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:32:08 UTC