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typosaurus12155143dThe one who invented html tags like meta and link who don't need a closing tag or a / at the end should die. Today.
Wrote a html parser and it was a nastii exception -
ingosteinke158143dI recently saw an unopened </p> tag in a website's source view. I wondered, when browsers have implicit auto-closing rules, maybe we should define unofficial de-facto standard for inserting implicit missing opening tags as well. I mean, it does work in human communication as </sarcasm> proves
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donkulator3063143d@retoor Death would be too good for him.
Especially if it's the same person who decided that <script src="ffs.js" /> has to be <script src="ffs.js"></script>. -
djsumdog6527143dUse <sarcasm /> instead. ... Wait, are we still doing /> for unmatched single tags? I can't remember anymore. God a I hate SGML/HTML/XML/XHTML/HTML5 and whatever hell comes next.
Also "/s" makes more sense.
When people write </sarcasm>, the unmatched tag makes me feel all itchy.
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