DO NOT USE HTML Self Closing Tags | Prime Reacts

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

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

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

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)

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

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

HTML5 makes this easy: Self-closing tags DO NOT EXIST. The parser merely tolerates the closing slash to not error out. Every element needs to be closed with a separate end tag, except for void elements. (img, br, input... uhhh, probably some more)

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

perfect zoom in

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