Posted by ironcorona on 05/04/06 05:42

Mark Parnell wrote:
> Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, ironcorona
> <iron.corona@gmail.com> declared in alt.html:
>
>> Really? But they're empty!
>
> Not in XHTML. XML has no concept of empty elements.
>
>> Is there an </img> tag too?
>
> Absolutely.
>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines
>> Just looked it up. You can do it because its part of XML but W3C seems
>> to be saying not to use it if at all possible.
>
> Because older browsers (including IE) don't support it and will barf on
> it.
>
> Better to just use HTML in the first place.


....The plot thickens!


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ironcorona

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