[whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

Mike Schinkel mikeschinkel at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 21:05:28 PST 2006


Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>> XML parsing for HTML on the web is totally impractical and I 
>> really do not understand the desire to do so.

It is frequently difficult for someone of advanced skills to understand why
the average person struggles with a given technology.  It seems to me that
web technologies should target the average person (not the advanced person)
as that's why it has previously been successful.

-Mike Schinkel
http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/
http://www.welldesignedurls.org/





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