On Nov 30, 2006, at 00:18, James Graham wrote:
I tentatively support the idea that trailing slashes on
"singleton"[1] elements should not be a parse error.
Me, too, and I'm past the tentative phase.
I don't think it has any actual technical merit
OTOH, the blog.whatwg.org WordPress lipsticking drill was a total
waste of time from a technical point of view. It was purely about
public relations and politics.
but I think it will be helpful in getting developer mindshare; a
lot of people have drunk the "Zeldman Koolaid" and have the ideas
of XHTML, clean markup, CSS, and conformance to standards in
general all mushed together in their brain[2]. For these people
(who I think represent the upper quartile of web developers in
terms of commitment to good markup) the trailing slash in empty
elements is the syntax of a new generation - it is a symbol that
represents everything that has changed in web design since 1996 -
as intrinsically useless as a fashionable designer label but just
as seductive.
+1
Propaganda efforts are better directed at other issues than undoing
the Zeldmanian />.
[1] I find that name quite confusing as it suggests there should
only be one in the entire document.
They are void elements now.
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Henri Sivonen
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