Re: HTML-Info design

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Yuri Khan <address@hidden> writes:

> With explicit closing tags, it is immediately visible where the author
> (or their tool) intended the element to end. Modifying the HTML
> generation logic only involves ensuring that nesting is not broken.
>
> With implicit tags, browsers can and will infer tag nesting on their
> own, and have an intricate system of rules to do so. Modifying the
> logic involves carefully working out where browsers would infer the
> missing tags, and then work with that knowledge to ensure that nesting
> won’t break.

Yeah, that's why all Python code looks like

 for x in range(10): # THE LINE ENDED THERE
     squares.append(x**2)  # THE FOR ENDS HERE I PROMISE!!!

It's then immediately visible where the author intended the lines to
end.

XHTML was history over five years ago.  It's time you XML fanatics
accept that HTML is a different language with different rules and stop
this incessant kvetching. 

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