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Re:Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags by sotojuan on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:28AM (#12520874)
Less HTML to load? Probably makes no difference in most cases, but it is less to load.

Many React/Webpack flows do something like this (minify or use a barebones template HTML).

Re:Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags by bpicolo on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:32AM (#12520901)
Seems like something you can add a build step for though. Less human overhead
Re:Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags by sotojuan on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:05PM (#12521305)
Sorry I wasn't very clear, that's what I meant by "React/Webpack" flow! See: https://github.com/ampedandwired/html-webpack-plugin