The future of HTML?

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TCar...@sussex.nj.us

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Feb 14, 2012, 10:43:22 AM2/14/12

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This is interesting. I received my private preview from Google Transit over the weekend. The next thing you do is to run Google's Random Query tool which for me, generated a list of 34 random trips in an HTML file for QA testing.

Here's the interesting part: The HTML file is very neat, very machine generated, containing <p>, <ul> and <ol> within enclosing <body> and <html> tags. The <p> and all the <li> tags are unclosed. The <ul> and <ol> are closed. Huh?

I seem to recall some guy saying in a recent NAGW HTML5 webinar that you didn't need to close your tags any longer. I was skeptical, but I found a blog post to confuse/clarify the issue further at

http://tiffanybbrown.com/2011/03/23/html5-does-not-allow-self-closing-tags/

Yuck. It seems the future of HTML will evolve from something reasonably structured to something more obscure...

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Katya Wowk

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Feb 14, 2012, 11:08:33 AM2/14/12

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Thank you for sending that Thor. I found the no close tag still works phenomenon purely by accident.

Katya

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