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Comment by assimpleaspossi

9 months ago

You are either running XHTML or you are not. No need to carry any compatibility overhead. I doubt he is serving XHTML.

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ThunderSizzle  9 months ago

I personally prefer <input /> if only to stop other developers to not try doing <input>content </input>.

  • pests  9 months ago

    There are other tags you can omit the closing tag but yet the opening tag shouldn’t be self-closed.

      <ol>
    <li>one
    <li>two
  </ol>

    I think even the final closing ol can be omitted as there are rules to auto close elements when encountering tags that don’t make sense in context.

    • ThunderSizzle  9 months ago

      I know that, but many developers don't. I can't wait to see the confusion on why my tag didn't auto-close like a <li> tag.

      Ambiguity can be a dangerous thing, and not closing HTML tags can be a cause of that in my experience.

  • assimpleaspossi  9 months ago

    The term for such "other developers" is "hobbyists".

    There are other terms but I won't list them here.

    • ThunderSizzle  9 months ago

      Sometimes "other developers" is also "coworkers".

      I've found less ambiguity to be a better thing than not, where possible. Self-closing a tag that can't contain anything is one such example of removing ambiguity for "hobbyists".

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