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ufo on March 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The thing I hate about HTML (2010)

This is good for hand-written html but annoying for machine-written html.

ericfontaine on March 11, 2015 [–]

machine would just have to count '/t' tabs at beginning of each line to parse. Is that any slower than scanning every character for '<'?

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