On 13 Sep 2007, at 01:15, Michael Koziarski wrote:

> Browsers understand <br /> just fine, I'm suggesting we be pragmatic.

Actually browsers don't understand <br /> - it's their lax error  
handling that makes it work. Most XHTML pages would actually fail if  
run through an XML parser as they are ill-formed. Take Basecamp's  
homepage page for example - there's a meta tag without the /> at the  
end which makes it ill-formed. It's the fact that they're served as  
text/html that makes them work.

> What's the real problem we're trying to solve?  What's the impact  
> of not solving it?

Well in my case I'm trying produce valid HTML4 that will pass WCAG  
without warnings to appease my local government / lottery funded  
clients who require accessible websites.

> What's the problem with installing a plugin which does this?

I have no problem, but I personally feel that Rails should be able to  
generate valid markup out of the box. Anyway I've closed the ticket  
with a link to the available plugin.


Andrew White


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