Posted by Bone Ur on 12/23/07 21:56

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:19:47
GMT Steve scribed:

> Ok i am now getting very confused. Initally I was under the opinion
> that then the BR tag was ment to be <br /> to make it W3C compliant.
> But when I use there validator it says it should be <br>.
>
> So it it correct then that <br /> is actually XML and not HTML?
>
> If this is the case then I found hundreds of site out there saying
> they are W3C comliant (HTML 4.01) when they actually are not.
>
> So basically W3C is a load of rubbish as not may are sticking to it?

I think the previous repliers explained it all pretty darn well, but just
to add my 2 drachmas-worth, don't use xhtml, use html 4.01 strict. Hardly
any web author actually needs to use xhtml and most do so simply because
they're pompous.

Avast, Matey!

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Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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