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

Serdar Kilic serdar at kilic.net
Sun Dec 3 00:28:52 PST 2006


Hi Mike,
Ian outlines why sending XHTML as HTML is harmful in his article at:

http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

On 03/12/2006, at 4:51 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:

> The following are honest questions, not rhetorical baiting.
>
> Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>>> Use XHTML, send it with an HTML MIME type, and be happy.
>> No!
>
> 	Why not?  What's wrong with doing that?

Regards,
Serdar Kilic
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