📢 Here is your decennial reminder that the #SGML #SHORTTAG feature allowed *name* omission in the attribute specification list if the value was declared as a name token list.

Attribute value omission (bring yer own scarequotes and scarfolks) was never a thing (bring yer own uppercase and exclamation markups). This has been mansplained every other day on Usenet between roughly 1440 and 2014.

I appear to have been reading a present day blog post.

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