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@adactio </lo>?
December 9th, 2015
Eight lines that can still be parsed by any of today’s web browsers:
https://gist.github.com/adactio/a515822dcb02ac9a66a7
1990-12-03
Responses
Mark Howells-Mead
@adactio Even though the end OL is back-to-front?
Jeremy Keith
@ambignostic An authoring error …which browsers handle just fine (and always have; one of HTML’s greatest strengths, in my opinion).
Rob Lifford
@ambignostic @mhmli Did your eyes get drawn straight to that as well? So weird!
Jeremy Keith
@mhmli Yes, of course. Browsers ignore what they don’t understand. That’s the very strength of HTML.
Alastair Campbell
@adactio Curious, was the </lo> a typo, or were end-tags supposed to be backwards?
Jeremy Keith
@alastc It was a typo …which browsers ignored without throwing an error (and continue to do).
Mark Howells-Mead
@adactio But I agree, it’s terrific that the browser can render it somehow, without choking.
Stephen Hay
@adactio is that </lo> on purpose?! Curious!
Susan Robertson
@stephenhay this new avatar is completely throwing me Stephen ;)
Eric A. Meyer
@adactio Now I want <lo></lo> to be an actual thing. Like <em>, but classier!
Jason Garber
@adactio …and the oldest extant page on the Web, last modified 1992-12-03 (precisely two years later):info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/…
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