To what I know, search engines, browsers and other items that reads the Internet and the Web for that matter, searches through tags like this:
<[tag]*> Meaning that no matter what tag it is, it will always replace the * with... anything, cause it was assumed that when the web started, people my type in useless things in tags, and thus it has to be ignored, but if people have written something like; <br lol> The browser couldn't just check for <br>, as <br lol> ( bad example I know, please kill me ) would not be that, and therefore not a break line. So instead, they used the other version. However, XHTML is meant to be read in another way, as far as I know, only Opera and Gecko takes care of the <!DOCTYPE>. :( Svip On 04/07/05, Alan Trick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tee wrote: > > I presume <br /> is part of the standards since it passes HTML 4.01 Strict & > > XHTML 1.0 strict validation but does it accessible friendly? > > > > Coming from the print design background it always disturb me to see the > > first word of the new sentence lonely let behind with the previous sentence. > > Knowing how browsers render differently I kind of gotten over with my > > obsession most the time but once in a while client's demand pulls me back to > > the old shell. > > > > So is <br /> friendly to accessibility? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Tee > > It wouldn't be an issue for screen readers or things like google, and I > doubt it would be a problem with most text-browsers. The biggest issue > would be if people resize the screen. Then you might end up with the > last word of a sentance left on it's own line. I think the best rule of > thumb is to ask you self if the line-break is semantically relevant. > There's really no way to know if the line-break is going to be were you > think it is, so avoid using if for styling. > > Alan Trick. > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
