[whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

[Christoph Päper]

Ian Hickson:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Christoph P�per wrote:
>>
>>   <br>first line</br>
> 
> Actually it's worse, </br> is actually handled as <br> in browsers, so 
> you'd end up with blank lines if we did this.

Yeah, someone already told me by now. On the other hand, there are 
probably worse compatibility issues with older specs and browsers than 
extra blank lines.