- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:34:26 +0000
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, www-html@w3.org
Jim Jewett wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2007 at 7:22 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> Could you elaborate on why you think that it is bad to >> have tags be omitted? > > I think I dropped this at the time, because I couldn't easily explain > it except in terms of cleanliness, or safety margins. I believe that it is bad because (a) it encourages sloppy markup, and (b) makes the document semantics far less clear to the human reader. I do not see what can be gained by allowing such things, apart from the trivial benefit of increasing the number of extant documents that can, as a result, claim to be "conforming". Philip TAYLOR
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