That's a matter of opinion

No opinion. It really is illegal HTML, and that working to not working is the range of behaviour.

Ok, I suppose saying having it work is the best behaviour is an opinion. But seriously? You'd say browsers throwing errors at the slash would be better? For whom??

I'm sure some people would rather see XHTML win out over HTML 5.

That makes no sense. They're orthogonal. HTML 5 has an XML serialization too.

Oh really? The front page of perlmonks renders just fine in my browser but it's not even close to a well-formed document

I was expecting a counter example after "Oh really?". You need to show that the page wouldn't be rendered fine if the strict DTD was specified to contradict me. Browsers expect a tag soup for HTML docs no matter what DTD (if any) is specified.

To clarify, I believe there are two ends of the spectrum: what works and what is correct.

Earlier you were disagreeing with my opinion that having bad HTML work anyway is the best behaviour. Now you agree with it. What are you trying to say?

In reply to Re^4: For valid HTML by ikegami
in thread For valid HTML by Lady_Aleena

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