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by minus7 1072 days ago
`<div />` getting parsed as opening tag instead of self closing is a bug (be it in the browser or in the spec) and should be fixed
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pornel 1072 days ago
It's been fixed. Send Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml and it will be parsed as an empty tag. But nobody brothers to turn that on. Without an opt-in it's unfixable due to backward compatibility.
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the_mitsuhiko 1072 days ago
Why would it be a bug in the spec? “/“ is just a parsing error in html and is ignored.
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