Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On 23.4.2013, at 06:57, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As a non-expert HTML user, I'd want whatever works on the most >> browsers, even old ones, as my audience is likely to include many who >> have old browsers in addition to many who have new ones, mobile ones, >> and accessibility-oriented browsers and extensions. >> >> Dunno if that helps at all. > > > This is a valid point. While I do not object to a way to select > an html flavor, the default should render correctly on as many > browsers as possible. > > - Carsten
Yup, absolutely. Inasmuch as anything is certain with HTML, it seems fairly clear that self-closing tags will /render/ properly in HTML4, even if they don't validate, so maybe it doesn't matter. I'll have a think and see if I can't come up with a less hideous way of handling the tags. If I can't, maybe we can just leave it. E
