On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Michael Enright wrote: > > What about '<foo />' with a space between 'o' and '/' ? There are many > "legacy" pages with that kind of mark-up on <br> elements and so forth.
There are also lot of legacy pages that do it on things like <p>, sadly. On <br> it's harmless, and it doesn't help either way to say that it makes an empty element, since it's empty anyway. On other elements, it makes HTML5 UAs have a different DOM that legacy UAs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
