Hi Matt, I am not going to argue/discuss about it (it has been discussed many times and everybody has his own opinion or project requirements), an ex colleague of mine has a nice writeup about xhtml, validation and why man should care about it:
http://www.grauw.nl/blog/entry/105 -m ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 11:13 AM To: Stripes Users List Subject: Re: [Stripes-users] /> versus > Matt Brock wrote: > You'll spend more cycles looking up whether this tag is self-closing > or that one isn't, when you could just say, heck with it, just follow a > simple pattern that all the browsers will understand and leave the dogma at > the doorstep. http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml ---------- * The "/>" empty tag syntax actually has totally different meaning in HTML4. (It's the SHORTTAG minimisation feature known as NET, if I recall the name correctly.) Specifically, the XHTML <p> Hello <br /> World </p> ...is, if interpreted as HTML4, exactly equivalent to: <p> Hello <br>> World </p> ...and should really be rendered as: Hello > World ---------- So shouldn't Stripes be preferring ">" over "/>", or is the issue that HTML 4.01 browsers will cope OK with "/>" even though it is strictly incorrect, whereas if we use ">" and not "/>" and someone *does* send a XHTML 1.0 page with the correct MIME type (application/xhtml+xml) it will blow up in the XML parser? -- Alan Burlison -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
