The Biggest Lie In HTML

The web is built on a mountain of tech debt.

Something about an issue being "Library does the thing it's meant to do completely wrong" is really amusing to me

I went to MDN to see the list of self-closing (which they call Void Elements) and they indicate that the /> is invalid HTML. I clicked on embed, one of these elements and the example had the invalid />. 😂

Enters HTML, the programming language

As someone building it’s 100% the fault of the framework creator. If you’re building a language wrapper it’s YOUR job to fully understand the details, especially the fine ones, of the language that you’re wrapping. It’ll be like building a C++ framework with a pointer object that is actually a reference under the hood.

<div /> Hello Will always look like an error for me.

If only we had a tool to show the browser what language version we’re using so it could parse accordingly… you know, like doctype and head meta tags 🙃

I was one of the XHTML proponents. But it had one huge problem on every browser that even supported it (at least it did back in the day): a single syntax error made the browser shit itself and refuse to render anything. But in my opinion they threw the baby out with the bathwater. They could have made HTML5 xml-like and xml compatible while also making it fault tolerant like it is today.

Theo's "Just never write html" argument misses the point.

I handwrite HTML for work. Also, my personal website doesn't use any framework, just handwritten HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of JS.