Saw this from a link in a comment elsewhere on DW - thanks for this! :)
I actually do want to ask one thing, though. Does self-closing a tag like <img /> actually help in a non-XHTML context? The thing is, the slash to end a self-closing tag isn't actually valid under HTML, only under XHTML - and Dreamwidth doesn't actually serve any XHTML. (In fact, according to the HTML spec, using '<img />' in code should actually render the same as '<img>>' would, because of what's known as SHORTTAG support. However, no browser actually implements this part of the HTML spec because it would break the Web entirely.)
So I'm kind of curious to know whether it does, in this case, help.
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I actually do want to ask one thing, though. Does self-closing a tag like <img /> actually help in a non-XHTML context? The thing is, the slash to end a self-closing tag isn't actually valid under HTML, only under XHTML - and Dreamwidth doesn't actually serve any XHTML. (In fact, according to the HTML spec, using '<img />' in code should actually render the same as '<img>>' would, because of what's known as SHORTTAG support. However, no browser actually implements this part of the HTML spec because it would break the Web entirely.)
So I'm kind of curious to know whether it does, in this case, help.