[thelist] Why do we say what we say?
Jon Hughes
hughesj at firemtn.com
Thu Oct 25 11:32:09 CDT 2007
> Officially, HTML rendering is supposed to ignore attributes it
> doesn't understand. br is a legitimate tag, but br/ is not. Thus,
> <br/> is illegitimate HTML tag, while <br /> is a legitimate HTML tag
> with an unknown "/" attribute. IN THEORY, an html renderer should no
> more understand <br/> than it understands <blearg>.
>
> So they stuck the space into the XHTML spec specifically for
> backwards compatibility with HTML.
>
> Stephen Rider
> --
Wait a sec... are you saying I shouldn't be using <blearg> anymore?
Dang.
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