Šime Vidas on Nostr: Why is the root element in HTML called <html>? Why not <document> or <doc> or <page> ...
Why is the root element in HTML called <html>? Why not <document> or <doc> or <page> or <root>? Isn’t it weird that the root element of an HTML document has the same name as the language itself? That’s like if the global object in JavaScript was literally called javascript.
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