Really fun read! Oh man, file, that could take up another post entirely couldn't it? I wonder about textarea though, I always related the closing tag requireme

Really fun read! Oh man, file, that could take up another post entirely couldn't it? I wonder about textarea though, I always related the closing tag requirement to XML where you could not put CDATA into attributes. So was it shortsighted to have <input> use value instead? This is where I run away screaming like my hair is on fire, specifications are a beast.