Why don’t self-closing script elements work?
The non-normative appendix ‘HTML Compatibility Guidelines’ of the XHTML 1 specification says: С.3. Element Minimization and Empty Element Content Given an empty instance of an element whose content model is not EMPTY (for example, an empty title or paragraph) do not use the minimized form (e.g. use <p> </p> and not <p />). XHTML DTD … Read more