This makes it sound so easy... browser bugs and idiosyncrasies still cling to web development like barnacles. Maybe one day when the old IEs and Firefoxes are dead, web development will become this. I hope it does, at least :)
I'm afraid this will always be the case. Any runtime or VM will have bugs, and the fact there are multiple instance in the world of web development only exacerbates this.
One day something new may come out, and the web will become a wasteland and web standards will stop being worked on. Then you may finally get a stable consistent target, but alas there will then be no point...
Good one for Start up developers as this is clean and the challenges in last of the Github Page are fair for them. Good to see that old html tags are not used.
It's true that void elements can't be self-closing in HTML, but the slash is still allowed. If you scroll down to 8.1.2.1 #6, you will see that the slash is just ignored if present on void elements.
I recently was helping out a non-technical friend with basic HTML/CSS stuff (like this repo) and I had the best success with showing her http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web. She had tried other resources but for her, Codecademy seemed to be the most hopeful and easy to use (AND FREE).
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 17.3 ms ] threadOne day something new may come out, and the web will become a wasteland and web standards will stop being worked on. Then you may finally get a stable consistent target, but alas there will then be no point...
The spec examples only use <br> and call it a void element (one which can't have any content) but states only foreign elements can be self closing.
- things like odd-even should be implemented with pseudo selectors.
Also, please make sure you have Google Chrome installed."
I recently was helping out a non-technical friend with basic HTML/CSS stuff (like this repo) and I had the best success with showing her http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web. She had tried other resources but for her, Codecademy seemed to be the most hopeful and easy to use (AND FREE).
Cheers!