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You don't always have to close your HTML tags

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Post June 27th, 2009, 4:07 pm

Google doesn't, so why should you?

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For example, according to the HTML4 DTD — you can omit tags like <body> and </tr> and all sorts of optional tags that browsers have to cope without.


This is, of course, for HTML, not XHTML.

http://blog.bug.gd/2009/06/27/the-highe ... html-tags/
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Post June 28th, 2009, 4:33 am

I suppose my question is who uses HTML? I can't recall the last time I purposely hand coded a page not using XHTML.
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Post June 28th, 2009, 7:20 am

spork wrote:
Google doesn't, so why should you?

One, because we're not Google, and two, because those few extra bytes don't really matter today.
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Post June 28th, 2009, 1:31 pm

It looks like Google already dropped the ball with the PHP recommendations, I'm a little leary about the others.
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Post June 28th, 2009, 3:29 pm

Looks like that's not the only point that others are a little ruffled about. Check this blog post.
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Post June 29th, 2009, 11:59 am

lol all of that is interesting. Google seems like a big company and I'm surprised they made those mistakes... maybe (like the article linked to by UPS) they thought PHP was similar to C.
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