On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-15] Lenar L�hmus wrote:
>
> Yes, agree, but this change has happend not much time ago, and I think
> it's one's responsibility to maintain the behavior what it used to
> be. Even more if the old syntax was generating standard compliant code
> (and HTML4 is a standard).
This syntax is perfectly html 4.01 (transistional) compliant.
(Try requesting this link through validator.w3.org:
http://defiant.jdimedia.nl:7480/php-hacking/php11611.php (only works
during night hours in GMT)
>
> Still, we must evolve, so a syntax like
> nl2br(string text [boolean html4]) would give the most up to date
> behaviour of this function, giving somebody an option to get the old
> behaviour when it's really neccessary.
It is never neccesary, unless Microsoft (or any other) wrote a browser
that is not adhering to the standards.
>
> And ... you don't know a browser where <br /> dowsn't work? But there
> might be one ... one's own specific implementation where creator haven't
> thought up possibility that "<br>" might be "<br />" one day. Since it is
> not neccessary for HTML to recognize "/" in the end of single tag then we
> can't really blame him.
Browsers should ignore things which they don't recognise:
(from http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/html40.txt, paragraph
7.2)
Note. As of the 24 December version of HTML 4.01, the HTML Working
Group commits to the following policy:
* Any changes to future HTML 4 DTDs will not invalidate documents
that conform to the DTDs of the present specification. The HTML
Working Group reserves the right to correct known bugs.
* Software conforming to the DTDs of the present specification may
ignore features of future HTML 4 DTDs that it does not recognize.
This was also the case with earlier versions of HTML.
regards,
Derick Rethans
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