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Mat Simon
Personal blog · colorglare.com · on HN as enyowebdesignprogramming
Mat Simon's personal blog at colorglare.com covers web, design and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “To close or not to close – Void HTML elements”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as an example of stateless HTML that relies heavily on omitted tags, citing it to support points about how browsers handle HTML. The only comment is a neutral citation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about web and frontend development, design, 3d and music — by Mat Simon.
Most-linked posts?
- To close or not to close – Void HTML elements3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-10
- Stop writing stateful HTML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-24
What Hacker News says?
Yep, you don't need a head — browsers will handle that just fine, and the spec generally allows for it. For an example of some HTML that leans quite heavily on the ability to omit tags, see here: http://www.colorglare.com/2014/11/24/stateless-html.html And you should get into Clojure(Script). It's a joyful language.
Comment linking /2014/11/24/stateless-html.html
on “Island Generator”Submitted To close or not to close – Void HTML elements as a story · 358 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop writing stateful HTML as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML void elements – To Close or not to close as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A creative way of presenting a music video as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML: To close or not to close as a story · 1 points
HN discussion