> If you do close your tags, Internet Explorer will render your pages even faster. Whereby "even faster" still means much slower than standards-adherent browse

> If you do close your tags, Internet Explorer will render your pages even faster. Whereby "even faster" still means much slower than standards-adherent browsers. I can't imagine that closing the tags improves the speed enough for it to make any real difference. Better to optimize a javascript algorithm or compress an image to squeeze out another millisecond or two.