Jon Ribbens via Python-list schreef op 24/10/2022 om 19:01:
On 2022-10-24, Chris Angelico<ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 02:45, Jon Ribbens via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
>> Adding in the omitted <head>, </head>, <body>, </body>, and </html>
>> would make no difference and there's no particular reason to recommend
>> doing so as far as I'm aware.
>
> And yet most people do it. Why?
They agree with Tim Peters that "Explicit is better than implicit",
I suppose? ;-)
I don't write all that much HTML, but when I do, it include those tags
largely for that reason indeed. We don't write HTML just for the
browser, we also write it for the web developer. And I think it's easier
for the web developer when the different sections are clearly
distinguished, and what better way to do it than use their tags.
> More importantly: Would you omit all the </p> closing tags you can, or
> would you include them?
It would depend on how much content was inside them I guess.
Something like:
<ol>
<li>First item
<li>Second item
<li>Third item
</ol>
is very easy to understand, but if each item was many lines long then it
may be less confusing to explicitly close - not least for indentation
purposes.
I mostly include closing tags, if for no other reason than that I have
the impression that editors generally work better (i.e. get things like
indentation and syntax highlighting right) that way.
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