- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:01:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Sam Ruby wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote on 08/02/2008 03:45:19 PM: > > > > The syntax for a self-closing element is for the element to be > > immediately followed by a close tag, for example, what in proprietary > > XML might be written as: > > > > <foo xmlns="http://example.com/" /> > > > > ...can be written in HTML5 as: > > > > <div class="com.example.foo"></div> > > Other than the fact that I would suggest span over div, this approach > does meet the requirements I laid out. Sure. The choice of HTML element name would be based on what fallback behaviour one would want. > It doesn't have the benefit of field experience (in the devil you know > vs the devil you don't know), but it would seem to work. Great! Does that mean that issue 41 can now be considered resolved as far as you are concerned? ISSUE-41 http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/41 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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