Re: Replace dead and obsolete HTML in the core
| From: | Levi Morrison | Date: | Fri, 22 May 2015 19:43:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Replace dead and obsolete HTML in the core | ||
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Jakub Kubíček <kelerest123@gmail..com> wrote:
> Hi Internals,
>
> I have recently made a patch[1] for PHP7 that replaces dead and obsolete
> HTML code (like <img border="0">, <a name="..."></a> vs.
> <...
> id="..."></...> or XHTML's NET notation <br /> vs. HTML's
> <br>), mostly
> being output by PHP itself (error messages, phpinfo() etc.), with
> alternatives that are being used rather nowadays.
>
> I would appreciate any feedback, as well as thoughts what else could be
> included in the patch.
I see no value in the changes from
<br/> to <br>. It saves
very
few characters and means you can't use XML parsers anymore. HTML 5
permits the XHTML syntax, so it's not like <br> is more conforming
to HTML5 than <br/> is.