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by wvenable 2035 days ago
> HTML could easily have said...

But it didn't! The problem with being strict here is that every possible usage has to be pre-imagined and perfectly implemented. You're suggesting the original developers should have just made affordances for everything that will be added in the next 30 years. That's easy to say now. The first web browser was essentially just a hugely successful prototype.

And can you imagine having to type all your tags in upper-case? Yuck. :)