The case against self-closing tags in HTML

Ask yourself: If you visit the website of your local doctor's surgery to find out the opening hours, which browser is best: The one that displays the opening hours of the surgery, or the one that displays an XML parsing error message?

One of the great things about browsers is they're error-tolerant

Kind of wish more sites thought of their content this way.

Browsers are resilient — and we still manage to break them with our brittle websites.