The point of this is... <br /> is complaint with existing html standards and
the new xhtml standard. While <br> is *not* compliant with new XHTML
standards. Why make the programmers go back and make changes for no reason?
Or for reasons like "It's pointless to output <br /> tags in HTML 4 code."?
Daniel
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To: "Lenar Lõhmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Matt McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP Developers Mailing List"
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #11611 Updated: nl2br() outputting invalid <br>
tags
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-15] Lenar Lõhmus 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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