XHTML Butthurt!
Sometimes, people wank over the stupidest things.

Enter acpizza at LJ's permmembers community. S/h/it demands to know why LJ insists on closing its line break tags when creating posts using the rich text editor, saying that this particular behavior has ruined the web client FOREVER! Admittedly, rich text editing has been the bane of support folk for a while, and it doesn't generate the best code in the world, but this is probably one of the silliest things to complain about.

Now, most people point out that this is standard for XHTML (including myself). darkcryst leaves what I think is the best comment. Thinking that simple facts would suffice to explain this particular behavior, I abandoned this post, thinking that the wank was done. The community mod in charge of allowing this post even admits that he/she did it for the lulz.

However, the person is still not satisfied. Since s/h/it gives some pretty choice replies, I'll just give you excerpts from the replies.


It may have been someone's standard for "years", but the HTML standard has been around even longer than anything XML, so.. fuck XML and the horse it rode in on. Besides, the great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

It is properly configured, the problem is fucking LiveJournal now has the RT editor as the default, so if you use the system anywhere other than home, it changes to shit mode.

Just use TABLE tags if you want to do a quote, the way God intended. (As an aside here, there is the blockquote tag, which is defined in the current XHTML standard, I believe. I know most of y'all know that already, but for the two of you who don't, well, now you do.)

What you're talking about is a piss-poor replacement for real HTML.

Backwards compatibility, freedom, and convenience mean that this so-called "requirement" will never be enforced.

And lastly, as a response to a request to stop trolling: But.. engineering homework gets too damned tedious without a refreshing break.