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by algorithms 5291 days ago
Same here. I think the return to "do whatever you want and we try to interpret it correctly" was wrong. Code in XHTML is way more readable, maintainable and easier to learn (IMO).

I still write my HTML5 in correct XHTML Syntax.
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damncabbage 5291 days ago
I freaked out a little when I started seeing do-whatever-you-want creep back in when I first read diveintohtml5.org (mirrored: http://diveintohtml5.info/).

Sure, you save some (or a great deal many) characters, but at the cost of making everything that needs to work with it more complex. (Browsers are a large slice of this pie, but by no means is the only slice.)

I'm going to sit back and wait for the cycle to come back around to XHTML-like correctness again.

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simonw 5291 days ago
"I'm going to sit back and wait for the cycle to come back around to XHTML-like correctness again."

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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Karellen 5291 days ago
I was doing that, but then found out that the XHTML empty-tag <foo /> is not valid for all elements in HTML5.

See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/... (via http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/minimal-html via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3356389 )

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