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tidy-html5
C2016–2024
htacg / tidy-html5

tidy-html5

The granddaddy of HTML tools, with support for modern standards

7Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.8KGitHub stars
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The granddaddy of HTML tools, with support for modern standards

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 8:59:20 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-01-13 20:45:43 UTC to 2024-07-29 20:54:07 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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INTPnerd·Nov 23, 2016Submission

HTML is now versionless... since 2011

I recently had an interesting conversation about the use of the HTML 4 transitional doctype, and was surprised to find out that it was no longer valid. I thought this website was the official / final say on the matter, but apparently it is both outdated and "just an informative reference", whatever that means: https://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html This is true despite the fact that the best validator I know of, https://validator.w3.org/nu/, agreed this was a valid doctype. But apparently that was a mistake as well, and they recently fixed it so it shows that doctype as an error. So what does it mean for HTML to be versionless? Here is the best I can understand it. The doctype is not supposed to alter the way the browser behaves. Browsers should continue to support outdated elements, attributes, etc for backwards compatibility
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and to give the web time to catch up to the latest standards. Authors should stop using them. To the extent browser choose to support outdated stuff, they do so as a single version of HTML, the same way they support "HTML 5" stuff. But if HTML is now versionless, why are we using the terms HTML 5.1 and 5.2? References: https://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5 https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#the-doctype https://github.com/validator/validator/issues/408 https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/466
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