WDR #3: Optional Tags, Unquoted Attribute Value Syntax

Post from July 29, 2009 (↻ December 12, 2016), filed under Web Development.

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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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