Post APx1E7ld0LjBGv7eFc by benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #APx1E3FZnZiFGM5zjk by benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:13:42Z
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<h1>How to annoy a web dev in three easy steps</h2><ol> <li>Mismatch opening and closing tags</li> <li>Use Internet Explorer</li> <li>"HTML & CSS aren't real programming languages"</li> <li>"three" easy steps started counting from index 0, because coding is like that</li></ul>
(DIR) Post #APx1E3eOJJYuVJhoPo by Los7key@mas.to
2022-07-25T05:22:53Z
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@benjaminhollon At least there are closing tags! =)
(DIR) Post #APx1E4QbQ47uuqGJYu by benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:23:36Z
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@Los7key <p>True, I suppose I didn't want to annoy y'all too much.
(DIR) Post #APx1E4rXntg4GOrpYW by steffo@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:47:13Z
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@benjaminhollon @Los7key Using <p> like that is actually valid HTML, and pretty useful when writing HTML by hand!
(DIR) Post #APx1E5LK1BUrkknbyC by steffo@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:48:05Z
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@benjaminhollon @Los7key Same for <li>, which can be used as the "dot" of items in the list:<ol> <li>one <li>two <li>three</ol>
(DIR) Post #APx1E5luQKlR5DEqPY by benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:48:32Z
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@steffo @Los7key Argh, that sounds terrible, though! 🙈
(DIR) Post #APx1E6KIMUGmnrKJ0a by steffo@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:49:27Z
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@benjaminhollon @Los7key It's also the preferred syntax for certain tags, such as <img> or <link>!
(DIR) Post #APx1E6jSquP23v6PEu by benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:49:46Z
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@steffo @Los7key Well, yeah, I know with those ones. But for elements that have content?
(DIR) Post #APx1E78zK0orL52n1U by steffo@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:53:53Z
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@benjaminhollon @Los7key There are many special cases: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-tags
(DIR) Post #APx1E7ld0LjBGv7eFc by benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:55:51Z
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@steffo @Los7key Interesting.Still annoys me to see HTML written that way. :)
(DIR) Post #APx1E8FlCJpYmNDiDY by steffo@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:57:31Z
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@benjaminhollon @Los7key https://xkcd.com/859/
(DIR) Post #APx1E8drkh73z8Uxn6 by benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:58:26Z
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@steffo @Los7key https://xkcd.com/1144/ was actually my inspiration for this. :)
(DIR) Post #APx1E9ATnRCVcHl0cq by steffo@fosstodon.org
2022-07-25T05:59:40Z
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@benjaminhollon @Los7key cursed HTML standard section: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#an-introduction-to-error-handling-and-strange-cases-in-the-parser