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DO NOT USE HTML Self Closing Tags | Prime Reacts

2024-03-05 Science & Technology
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Recorded live on twitch, GET IN https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen Become a backend engineer. Its my favorite site https://boot.dev/?promo=PRIMEYT This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Article link: https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/ By: Jake Archibald | https://twitter.com/jaffathecake MY MAIN YT CHANNEL: Has well edited engineering videos https://youtube.com/ThePrimeagen Discord https://discord.gg/ThePrimeagen Have something for me to read or react to?: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagenReact/ Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis Hey I am sponsored by Turso, an edge database. I think they are pretty neet. Give them a try for free and if you want you can get a decent amount off (the free tier is the best (better than planetscale or any other)) https://turso.tech/deeznuts

Top Comments (10)

@MeriaDuck 2024-03-05

Calling SVG 'savage', why did I not come up with that 😂

487 8 replies
@Mel-mu8ox 2024-03-05

I was a new comer scared by the "Doctype"... Then I learnt about "quirks mode"... Lets just keep the doctype where it is :D

188 2 replies
@omkelderman 2024-03-05

what the fuck I did not know that either, I equally switched opinion just as hard at the exact same moment lmfao

97 3 replies
@panstromek 2024-03-05

Didn't realize it's from Jake, he's such web OG. I learned so much from his stuff (especially stuff they did with Surma)

96 6 replies
@YahyaRahimov 2024-03-05

To me it feels like HTML and JavaScript are racing to be the weirdest one 😂😂😅

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@kaosdlanor8091 2024-03-05

Jake Archibald is the best. 6 years ago he gave a talk on the JS event loop which made the subject way clearer than I thought possible with great humour

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@ReedoTV 2024-03-05

SGML had optional closing tags and the pain it caused is the reason XML was created

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@LordHonkInc 2024-03-05

God, remembering how often I got in trouble for not using <br/> in my CS class, this infuriates me xD

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@wariotx 2024-03-05

perfect zoom in

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@remboldt03 2024-03-06

My friend had a weird class in university, where his HTML had to be validated by an XML parser I learnt so much helping him that day. It was a crazy new undiscovered parallel world with languages like XSLT

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