WDR #3: Optional Tags, Unquoted Attribute Value Syntax
Published on July 29, 2009 (↻ June 10, 2024), filed under Development (RSS feed for all categories).
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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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