[Wolves] Crap web company website

Matthew Revell wolveslug at understated.co.uk
Fri Mar 19 13:22:19 GMT 2004


sparkes wrote:

>>><snip />
>>
>>I gotta larf.
>>
>>Compliant pseudo-xhtml.  :)
> 
> as snip isn't a html element but an xml one ;-) it could have saved a
> char by being <snip/> the space is only required in xhtml elements such
> as <br /> so existing html browsers read it as <br> with an attribute of
> / they don't understand so ignore as the specification recommends thus
> still rendering a line break.  

You know you're amongst geeks when... :)

Damn, I couldn't even get my joke right :-D


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