<div>Sorry for being the dunce here, but is anybody saying otherwise? Whereas XML _requires_ that you close every tag, HTML5 _should allow_ you to close any tag. I agree with what was said previously about considering something like '<select /></select>' invalid, but if somebody's suggesting that something like '<img src="..." />' or '<br />' should also be invalid, I disagree. Validators and UAs should accept singleton tags _with or without_ the self-closer.
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<div>Am I totally misunderstanding or missing the point here?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Leons Petrazickis</b> <<a href="mailto:leons.petrazickis@gmail.com">leons.petrazickis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 11/29/06, Robert Sayre <<a href="mailto:sayrer@gmail.com">sayrer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 11/29/06, Robert Sayre <
<a href="mailto:sayrer@gmail.com">sayrer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Ok, I have submitted a bug report.<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3406">http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3406
</a><br>> ><br>> > Let's see what happens.<br>><br>> Well, that didn't seem too effective. :/<br><br>This rigmarole is going to repeat on every site that has converted to<br>XHTML sent as text/html. People are emotionally invested in the idea
<br>of trailing slashes. Websites have complex codebases, and going<br>through them removing trailing slashes on singleton elements would be<br>very hard.<br><br>They've already reaped all the benefits of XHTML -- cleaner, more
<br>readable, more maintainable code. There's no incentive for them to<br>agree with you. This is a minor point that we need to give to them.<br><br>The very idea of HTML5 is to not demand that the Web be scrapped and<br>
rewritten. We need the people who have rewritten all their pages so<br>that they validate on the W3C validator -- they have the fire and the<br>zeal and the will to spread our format. We need to make the migration<br>from invalid XHTML to valid HTML5 very, very easy for them. We can't
<br>require them to dig through PHP spaghetti. And that means that, no<br>matter how it's achieved, <br/> needs to be valid HTML5.<br>--<br>Leons Petrazickis<br></blockquote></div><br>