We use self-closing syntax in HTML where it doesn't do anything. People see it and assume it does something. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

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A developer of sorts wrote a great blog post about that! jakearchibald.com/2023/against...

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