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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Yuri Khan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, you are wasting your time! Look into the peculiarities of CSS instead ...