WDR #3: Optional Tags, Unquoted Attribute Value Syntax

Published on Jul 29, 2009 (updated Jun 10, 2024), filed under development, html. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon.)

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The Web Dev Report, issue #3:

Transcript.

(Somewhere on valid HTML, 1995 or 2000 or 2010 or so.)
Guy 2:: I omit optional tags.
Guy 1:: (This is HTML murder.)
Guy 2:: And I don’t quote attribute values unless it’s required.
Guy 1:: (HTML genocide!)

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