But seriously though, why can't I do <script src="blah.js"/>? We have to manually close the tag with </script> every time, still?
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We're rabid for performance and page size and load times but we still have to manually close a completely empty <script> tag every last time
Apparently the answer is "HTML5 just straight-up ignores the / in <tag/> for some reason"
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Roll on HTML6 I guess
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wait, what? How does <link /> and <img /> work, then?
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Those tags can't have content, so the parser knows not to wait for an explicit </link> or </img>.
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The "for some reason" is "there's a ton of content in the wild that puts /> on their start tags and expects them to not self-close".
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Or in other words, "a bunch of people were fucknuts, and old browser devs accommodated them". Like every other weird HTML feature.
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