more whining about LJ markup

[mmcirvin]

A pet peeve of mine: Often somebody on LiveJournal formats a list full of LI elements in the old-fashioned caveman HTML way, without closing tags, like so:

<UL> <LI> foo <LI> bar <LI> baz </UL>

Now, in the ultramodern XHTML world we have to close all our tags so we can't have that. So something in the system dreams up this abomination out of its little machine brain:

<UL> <LI> foo <LI> bar <LI> baz </UL> </LI></LI></LI>

Wrong, wrong, WRONG.