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2024-08-14 15:02:44

Lea Verou on Nostr: 🔥 Hot take: The self-closing syntax makes HTML easier to learn. It means novices ...

🔥 Hot take: The self-closing syntax makes HTML easier to learn.

It means novices can tell the difference between valid and invalid markup *before* they memorize HTML’s entire vocabulary of element names.

Given that HTML is the most novice-friendly language in the web platform, I think that’s a benefit worth preserving.

But even to experts, the cognitive process of reading a tag name and remembering whether it’s self-closing is much slower (though both tasks are very fast in absolute terms).
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