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Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by toxican on Saturday February 11, 2017 @12:11PM (#13623480)
I don't think I've ever actually read the standards and I've been doing this 12 or so years now. I just kind of picked up on what was considered kosher and what wasn't over time. And then when having a "XHTML STRICT" badge in your footer was all the rage, I learned a bit more by having to tweak my code to earn it.

imo, there are a lot of different paths to being a good developer. Personally I find scouring over the standards or some dry reference site to be about the most painful way.

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Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by codedokode on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:53PM (#13624069)
It is interesting that when XHTML was popular most people actually made and served HTML pages (with content type text/html) even if they had a XHTML doctype. That is why this standard was dead from the beginning. Though personally I like the idea of not displaying the page if there is any error in the code.
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