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For many purposes it is needlessly verbose to write html by hand. Thats why markdown became popular. But if more people do it and report their usage patterns one could maybe create a "super-markdown", i.e., the closest you could get to mapping html flexibility without the annoying XML verbosity.
I use whatever programming language to generate HTML string from a simple function like h("div", { class: "box" }, [ ... ]), so I can use variables, loops etc.
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but how do you do images or video, they need some extra magic work
I'm not sure I understand your question. is the tag you use for an image, and there are tags to embed video.
(also the other parameter is set to "auto" automatically, at least in Firefox)
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The optional form is weird looking coming from the XHTML era where we were trained on the auto-closing form. Looking up elements that support no closing tag: html, head, body, p, li, dt, dd, option, thead, th, tbody, tr, td, tfoot, colgroup Makes sense if you think about it. Basically everything is pretty well defined and its obvious what next tag should close the context. for example obviously ends when you come acr…
I lived through the XHTML era; when I was doing web-design I adopted it for many projects. It just seemed right to rigorously enforce a formal approach, and I suspect it reduced errors. Took me a long time to train myself out of afterwards though. But the optional-style works I think for writing . Especially if you're just writing a document . If you don't have site-menus, a search bar, social-media sharing icons, ja…
HTML is how I write . I struggled with Markdown (and various other mark up formats) for a long time, until I realised that, for me, nothing beats plain HTML for simplicity and expressive power. I now use HTML the way people generally use markdown: as an open, easy to read, easy to write, plain-text format for taking notes, writing articles, expressing thoughts, and so on. I didn't really choose HTML, I just sort of n…
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I lived through the XHTML era; when I was doing web-design I adopted it for many projects. It just seemed right to rigorously enforce a formal approach, and I suspect it reduced errors. Took me a long time to train myself out of afterwards though. But the optional-style works I think for writing . Especially if you're just writing a document . If you don't have site-menus, a search bar, social-media sharing icons, ja…
You mean , presumably.
It is a valid short form of
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I lived through the XHTML era; when I was doing web-design I adopted it for many projects. It just seemed right to rigorously enforce a formal approach, and I suspect it reduced errors. Took me a long time to train myself out of afterwards though. But the optional-style works I think for writing . Especially if you're just writing a document . If you don't have site-menus, a search bar, social-media sharing icons, ja…
You mean , presumably.
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I lived through the XHTML era; when I was doing web-design I adopted it for many projects. It just seemed right to rigorously enforce a formal approach, and I suspect it reduced errors. Took me a long time to train myself out of afterwards though. But the optional-style works I think for writing . Especially if you're just writing a document . If you don't have site-menus, a search bar, social-media sharing icons, ja…
You mean , presumably.
HTML is how I write . I struggled with Markdown (and various other mark up formats) for a long time, until I realised that, for me, nothing beats plain HTML for simplicity and expressive power. I now use HTML the way people generally use markdown: as an open, easy to read, easy to write, plain-text format for taking notes, writing articles, expressing thoughts, and so on. I didn't really choose HTML, I just sort of n…
links are such a pain to write though. Probably the biggest annoyance when I write in raw html.
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You mean , presumably.
is a self closing tag. This is used in XML / XHTML for elements that have no contents. It is a valid short form of
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/br
so it should be
on its own or