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Re:The compiler flag that time forgot by grrowl on Monday May 04, 2015 @09:11PM (#9490344)
The ever-tolerant HTML browser will automatically fix it up. The irony is in that this XHTML syntax has bled back into some code styles in HTML, however inaccurate in that language, but since the introduction of JSX and React, the self-closing tag is required again (all tags must close, or self-close, to be able to parse the file at all)
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Re:The compiler flag that time forgot by strictfp on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @02:36AM (#9491141)
..Which is ironic since xhtml was supposed to be strict enough that browsers could stop being so tolerant.
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Re:The compiler flag that time forgot by grrowl on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @02:49AM (#9491170)
and in true contemporary web development style, we threw it all away and wrote a javascript pre-processor for it instead.
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