How does this “document” look in a text editor with colour coding? Can I collapse parts of it when I don’t want to be distracted by them? I edit HTML code – if speed is a real concern I write a build script that concatenates, minifies and changes the code to live code. If people really think that a few closing P tags would make their page slower they have not understood gzip on the server.

We’re developers and should be allowed to write and maintain code that is predictable and follows a clean convention. The last example above is totally fine by me and this is how I write my HTML5 except that I put ” around the attributes as that helps my colour coding, too.

The whole argument that “less code is better” leads to unmaintainable code. If you want to do speedcoding, enter a 64k intro contest in the demo scene – don’t expect future maintainers to be as excited as you are about the things you do as they will not read up why your code is so short and just add random stuff at the end of it. Want proof of that? Compare any CSS document after it went through a few rounds of maintenance.

- readability of the source is very important. (And completely subjective; I find 6502 Assembler quite readable as it was my first programming language)

@Alia

Interesting; I woudn’t even know how to get hold of a copy of Lynx (the real one, not the emulator).