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He's not asking for browsers to change, he's suggesting to developers to just stop including it because it doesn't actually do anything. It's like putting Java
by ars 3y ago
He's not asking for browsers to change, he's suggesting to developers to just stop including it because it doesn't actually do anything.
It's like putting Javascript code in HTML comments - it's totally not necessary, but some people still do it.
- falcolas 3y agoIf it doesn't do anything - if it doesn't matter, then why care? I mean this quite literally. Is it worth expending any time or energy on changing habits and tooling when it doesn't matter, and will probably never matter?
- furyofantares 3y ago> If it doesn't do anything - if it doesn't matter, then why care? Because it's confusing. I've been doing this a long time and didn't actually know that /> is meaningless, and it would explain some random bugs I've worked around in the past.
- arp242 3y agoI've seen people "fix" stuff by adding a "/>" as that's "better". Other than that, I don't really care because as you mentioned it doesn't really matter. But the needless churn is a bit annoying at times, so not a bad thing to get the message out that it's a XHTML thing and doesn't matter in HTML.