Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Steinar Bang <address@hidden> wrote:

>> In html5 there is also single tags (whatever they call them,I don't
>> remember right now).
>
> My first version was a +1 to Yuri's comment followed by a rant on this
> part of HTML5.
>
> I deleted the rant, but maybe I shouldn't have...?

Oh, I have a perpetual rant at the HTML syntax in general, with all
its optional tags, voodoo rules for recovering from bad markup, the
adoption agency algorithm, and suchlike. If something is broken, it
should be visibly broken. I’d rather HTML were obsoleted in favor of
XHTML. Sadly, W3C does not feel that way.