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I fully agree with this statement. My work is generally for the web, and HTML has the same issues. It's amazing how much removing a single tag in a nested tree

by MH15 7y ago

I fully agree with this statement. My work is generally for the web, and HTML has the same issues. It's amazing how much removing a single tag in a nested tree can mess up VSCode's parsing engine. Just modifying the tags usually works on both open and close though.

danShumway 7y ago
One point I try to get across to people working on the web is that they should think of HTML as a render target, not as a layout tool. The point of HTML isn't to make it easy to lay out a document, it's to have an easily understandable pure-text representation of hierarchical data that can be read by computers/users. Light, well-formatted, semantic HTML isn't an engineering concern, it's a UX concern. Of course HTML can be used as a layout tool, but that's not its primarily purpose, otherwise it would include decent 2-way data bindings for tables.