📝 The case against self-closing tags in HTML
At best, they're a relic from the past, and at worst, they're actively misleading.
https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/
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@jaffathecake Having started coding in the early 2000s, I use self-closing syntax like dogma.
But I hadn't realized just how pointless and unsupported it had gotten... Do browsers even use it as a hint to behaviour with HTML5 or do they just discard it entirely as meaningless?
@LouisIngenthron just discarded