Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > Recentish WebKit does actually respect the self-closing part of the > <script> tag, and does display both the title and the text (but only if > the trailing / is present). I'm pretty sure Firefox is correct here > according to the current HTML 5 spec, and WebKit is wrong, but I haven't > actually looked. (Of course, the behavior in both cases probably predates > the spec.)
I assume that it's doing this behaviour only for script elements (plus the empty ones, obviously)? I tried allowing the shorttag notation in my HTML parser and it broke one or two sites - not very many, but one of them was hotmail.com IIRC (it contained something this: <select/><option><option></select>) -- Stewart Brodie Software Engineer ANT Software Limited
