I really appreciate that JSX normalized self-closing tags, even if it’s not “html standard”, and I’m somewhat sad to lose that nicety in Svelte. In my view Svelte is plenty weird enough to not be HTML already, but I guess the framework owner differs.
Relevant book to use as reference. Written by Simon who worked with web standards at Opera. The race to conform with whatever browser had the biggest market share that day (typically IE, or Chrome) - meant a lot of reverse engineering.
I'm so happy he realized this behaviour is not good. I understand that svelte templates are not HTML (but a superset as he says), so I'd like to assume that whatever is wrong HTML should also be wrong Svelte-template-language.
I really don't understand how people can defend using the self-closing div's etc, when this just contributes to the same set of problems they are criticising in the same sentence :smh:
Glad Rich is seeing it the same way and moves forward with fixing this!
What I meant to say is that if when somebody both admits their misunderstanding , admits it, then starts a discussion on what to do about it, then I don't understand the "this guy is a joke" part. Don't you wish everyone was like that?
