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Re:The thing I hate about HTML (2010) by ufo on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @11:01PM (#9182309)
This is good for hand-written html but annoying for machine-written html.
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Re:The thing I hate about HTML (2010) by ericfontaine on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @11:34PM (#9182440)
machine would just have to count '/t' tabs at beginning of each line to parse. Is that any slower than scanning every character for '<'?
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