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0 pointsmartin_a3y ago0 comments

You're right. HTML5 does not work with DTDs anymore, so unclosed tags are not a violation of the document schema and therefore probably not "punishable" by search engines.

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anjbe3y ago

Implicit end tags as described in the article have been allowed by every HTML DTD not named XHTML.

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0 pointsmartin_a3y ago0 comments

You're right. HTML5 does not work with DTDs anymore, so unclosed tags are not a violation of the document schema and therefore probably not "punishable" by search engines.

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anjbe3y ago

Implicit end tags as described in the article have been allowed by every HTML DTD not named XHTML.

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