On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:56:55AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Anthony Fok: > > > Netscape 4.x is buggy and will have problem when a nested table doesn't > > have all the closing </TD> </TR> tags, so yes, adding them is > > definitely better. :-) > > Well, if you use nested tables, then you're on really thin ice, that's > something that's extremly seldom necessary. I remember doing nested > tables once, but I can't remember having problems with having to write > </TD> or </TR> even then. [...]
I did not read any good reason for not closing optional tags, whereas many people feel better with </TD></TR> in tables, so even if there is no technical reason to insert them, it is a matter of social behavior ;) [...] > > Also, it seems that everyone is heading towards XHTML and/or XML > > eventually, so it is probably a good time to start changing our habits > > now. :-) > > So, that means that we are also going to close all paragraphs, [...] No, this is a different issue, closing <p> paragraphs without syntax errors implies a good knowledge of HTML specs, mainly what blocks are, and these changes are error prone wrt (X)HTML specs. OTOH closing </TD></TR> is trivial. Denis
