The slash being treated as optional is the best possible result, not the worst.

That's a matter of opinion, I'm sure some people would rather see XHTML win out over HTML 5.

It sounds like you're saying transitional documents don't have to be well-formed, and that's not true.

Oh really? The front page of perlmonks renders just fine in my browser but it's not even close to a well-formed document. To clarify, I believe there are two ends of the spectrum: what works and what is correct. Many websites work just fine with broken HTML. Many times, the HTML is intentionally broken to support browsers that don't support standards. I really don't mean to criticize perlmonks here, it works and that's all I ask, but the site doesn't exactly validate.

Myself, I strive to write correct code in any language and to comply with any applicable standards to the best of my ability.

In reply to Re^3: For valid HTML by rowdog
in thread For valid HTML by Lady_Aleena

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