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

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote:
> 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.

Hopefully not in HTML5. :-)

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