Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Mark Mielke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Closing tags gives the processor more explicit instructions on how to deal
> with ambiguities


There are no ambiguities in valid HTML.

>
> The combined open close tags such as <hr/> should be used with a space
> before the / to make sure it works on old and new browsers.
>
> Try: <hr />
>

That's not valid HTML.


> Again, it's just a good practice.
>

No, using invalid HTML is not good practice. There's no reason to do it, and
the only possibly effect is to create errors.

If you're writing HTML, write HTML.
If you're writing XHTML, write XHTML.