vincevincevince - 5:21 am on May 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Very interesting... I hope it clears out a lot of the archaic poor functionality and workarounds in HTML.

One of the things I think would be brilliant would be a way to explicitly match opening and closing tags. This is very important in the Web 2.0 era where it is expected that user and webdesign content is automatically married, and developers and those who enter the pages are rarely the same people.

Example:

<div id="maincontent">
blah blah
<div id="usercontent">
blah blah
<div id="this was not closed">
blah blah
</div id="usercontent">
blah blah
</div id="maincontent">


The meaning of including the ID in the closing tag should be that it explicitly ensures that the usercontent DIV open tag matches the usercontent DIV close tag, instead of the current behaviour in which the usercontent end tag would close the div tag provided by the user's content which wasn't closed.

The same problem happens here on Webmasterworld - if you use BBCode which causes certain tags to be opened and then fail to use the code to close them, it messes up all the following output.