I don't <p> in your pool, so please don't <p> in my HTML.
-M@
On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 10:45 AM, Jacob Kjome wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm wondering what peoples' thoughts are about DOM serialization and
dealing with <p> elements. Currently, XMLC treats the <p> tag
specially, classifying it as a tag that shouldn't have an end tag
written for it.. This seems to have been an arbitrary preference of
early developers of XMLC. I, for one, do not agree with it, although
I have an idea why it was done. Some early browsers rendered <p></p>
differently than <p>. As such, it became common for HTML developers
to exclude the </p> in their markup. Then again, some developers
standardized on the more XHTML-like <p></p> and printing out <p>
messes up their formatting. With today's smarter browsers, all of
this should be moot.
So, does anyone have a problem with modifying XMLC to force <p> tags
to be ended with </p>? Obviously, either form is legal HTML4.01, but
ending <p> tags with </p> seems like the more correct thing to do and
matches up with the the next wave of HTML which is XHTML. People
really should get used to this at this point, but I'm asking for
opinions here because I don't want to break everyone's layouts
unnecessarily.
Jake
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