Re: mothra ignores <br>, funky text entry

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 08:36 PM, sl@9front.org wrote:
> Have you verified that the forums in question are actually
> presenting a <br> and not something else?

Right. What it's not parsing correctly is <br/>. It also doesn't parse
<hr/> although it parses <hr> correctly. Both errors can be seen at
http://ethan.uk.to/static/brtest.html

We must deal correctly with these trailing slashes because as any fine
upstanding Web 2.0 shithead will tell you, any tag which does not have a
corresponding closing tag must have a / at the end because otherwise
html is simply too hard to parse.

Ehh, regardless of what bollocks they use to justify it, the trailing
slash seems to be required if you want to be taken seriously as a web
designer, everybody uses it.
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