Re: HTML-Info design

[Nic Ferrier]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Yuri Khan <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> With explicit closing tags, it is immediately visible where the author
>> (or their tool) intended the element to end. Modifying the HTML
>> generation logic only involves ensuring that nesting is not broken.
>>
>> With implicit tags, browsers can and will infer tag nesting on their
>> own, and have an intricate system of rules to do so. Modifying the
>> logic involves carefully working out where browsers would infer the
>> missing tags, and then work with that knowledge to ensure that nesting
>> won’t break.
>
> Yeah, that's why all Python code looks like
>
>  for x in range(10): # THE LINE ENDED THERE
>      squares.append(x**2)  # THE FOR ENDS HERE I PROMISE!!!
>
> It's then immediately visible where the author intended the lines to
> end.
>
> XHTML was history over five years ago.  It's time you XML fanatics
> accept that HTML is a different language with different rules and stop
> this incessant kvetching. 

That's not very helpful either.

It's certainly the case that definite ending is easier to process.


Nic