torben haack
t128n.dev
torben haack
@t128n.dev
software engineer
And bsky.app of course lol - don't know how I could forget it...
a man in a suit is covering his face with his hands while sitting at a desk
Alt: a man in a suit is covering his face with his hands while sitting at a desk
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What a nice app!
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The browser hack gameshow in-between also was really entertaining.
I rarely get to listen to syntax.fm, but when I do, they really do deliver with their episodes!
Syntax - Web Development Podcast
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syntax.fm
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
That's only for HTML though - XHTML requires you to close the tags:

« Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end with />. For instance,
or
. »

www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/references/h...
XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language
www.cs.auckland.ac.nz
October 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
You just define the opening tag like:



Since the HTML parser knows, that it is a void-element, it "closes" it implicitly.

html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/sy...
HTML Standard
html.spec.whatwg.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
TIL in a strict-sense they actually aren't

«(…) the trailing slash is ignored, and the element is treated as open until an explicit closing tag is encountered or until the parser implicitly closes the element based on the HTML structure and parsing rules.»

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/G...
Void element - Glossary | MDN
A void element is an element in HTML that cannot have any child nodes (i.e., nested elements or text nodes). Void elements only have a start tag; end tags must not be specified for void elements.
developer.mozilla.org
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM