Early Google did not close their tags, I think it was for the sake of payload size?
That said, your linter is going to drive you crazy if you don't close tags, no?
How the mighty have fallen. A search on YouTube now pulls in 2.14 MB of HTML alone.
This is more of a problem with linters.
How the mighty have fallen. A search on YouTube now pulls in 2.14 MB of HTML alone.