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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Replace dead and obsolete HTML in the core
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Jakub Kub=C3=AD=C4=8Dek <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=3D"0">, <a name=3D"..."></a> vs. <...
> id=3D"..."></...> 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.