<title /> vs <title></title>

The other day i was hunting a very strange bug that occured in IE8. I’ ve got a frameset where i have a
otherframe.location.href = somelink;
This leads to a blank screen in the browser window where i am even not able to view the source code. Every time i clicked the right mouse button i got an
“Access denied”
on that very line.
I googled a lot but did not find the solution. So i used as many alert(); boxes as possible until i finally found out that the title-tag seemed to be not well formed. I don’t have an idea why
<title />
is not well formed, but IE taught me that. So i will use
<title></title>
in the future…