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I wasn't going to mention the invalid HTML. Thank you for doing it.

• xp84 3y ago
  I thought we all agreed to ignore validity a while back when XHTML gave way to HTML5.
  • pests 3y ago
    How is XHTML any more valid than HTML 5?
    • tredre3 3y ago
      XHTML had to be valid XML, that was the entire shtick. Comparatively HTML5 is very lenient in its spec. Browsers are even more lenient in their implementation.
      • pests 3y ago
        It has a pretty well defined spec. It's just not XML, and I think that's okay. Do you have any examples of undefined or linient rules? I'm a big fan of optional closing tags that HTML5 has. Can do stuff like: <h2> Todo List <ul> <li> Do task A <li> Do task B <p> Dear Diary, ... Almost as easy as markdown. Couldn't get this working with XML.
  • userbinator 3y ago
    Indeed, the fact that HTML5 specified the exact way to turn any stream of bytes into a DOM means that "error" cases are really just academic/theoretical.