[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #59432: Compliant with W3C coding standards

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#59432: Compliant with W3C coding standards
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 Reporter:  agypten      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:  6.3.1
 Severity:  minor        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  coding-standards
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Comment (by dmsnell):

 good point @sabernhardt - we should update the handbook. it isn't even
 consistent with itself, because it talks about self-closing tags and then
 uses `BR` as an example, but the `BR` element is not self-closing, it's an
 HTML Void Element, which is a different class (there are no self-closing
 tags in HTML5, only self-closing MathML, SVG, and foreign elements) and
 which should not contain the self-closing flag, the `/`.

 though it's definitely a good idea to leave the space in on actual self-
 closing elements when they are used.

 I guess our coding standards also recommend technically-invalid-but-benign
 HTML syntax.

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