Writing HTML by Hand

Re:Writing HTML by Hand by zX41ZdbW on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:57AM (#37583556)

I write all my presentations in HTML.

Advantages: - greater flexibility than with Markdown; - no need to decide between Markdown, ReStructuredText, Wiki markup, BBCode, etc;

Disadvantages: - writing closing tags is cumbersome;

The source code is here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-presentations Example: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup74/ai/

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Re:Writing HTML by Hand by smlavine on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:34PM (#37591046)

> writing closing tags is cumbersome

Personally I've come to appreciate that many closing tags are unnecessary in HTML. Makes many constructs much more concise. Especially with tables:

``` <table> <caption>Some letters and numbers <thead> <tr> <th>Letters <th>Numbers <tbody> <tr> <td>A <td>1 <tr> <td>B <td>2 <tr> <td>C <td>3 </table> ```

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Re:Writing HTML by Hand by erhaetherth on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:05AM (#37594132)

Is there an HTML formatter that'll strip unnecessary closing tags?

I used to be team semi-colon in JS but I've switched teams now and have my formatter strip them. There's like 1 or 2 edge cases where that can bite you but practically speaking it's a non-issue. The real downside is that I sometimes get lazy when writing C++ and that very much dislikes poor punctuation.

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