Terry Pratchett and the Reaper

[hudebnik]

Thanks to la_peregrina, this entertaining and thought-provoking talk from the late Sir Terry:

ETA:
It has come to my attention that my first attempt to post this screwed up people's friends feeds, because LJ has some odd interpretations of HTML.  You know how

<html-tag params></html-tag>

is supposed to be equivalent to

<html-tag params/>

at least since HTML 4 or so? Not in LJ-land, it isn't....

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Re ETA:
Are they actually equivalent, or is it that some tags support the /-syntax for unary tags? (HTML5 may be more explicit about this, but IIRC 4 only said "for empty-tags like img and br, you can use the /-syntax instead of an unnecessary close tag".)

The specs and DTD are being annoying for finding this, sadly.