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> The whole thing is a dubious technique anyway because it depends on JavaScript—if JavaScript is disabled…

I address this twice in the article, which presumably you didn’t read.

> P.S. Why the trailing slash on the tag? It’s completely useless…

Are you just looking for things to be unhappy about?

As I said, in this case it’s deliberate and acceptable, but techniques like this have a pernicious way of being used in other more important places where they’re emphatically bad.

Concerning the trailing slash: it’s something I’ve long been puzzled about because it seems to me to be not merely pointless but slightly counterproductive. Here you’ve evidently deliberately inserted it, and I can’t for the life of me understand why people are doing this, so I’m asking.

It actually wasn’t a deliberate inclusion—I didn’t give it any thought, largely because it makes no difference and isn’t relevant to the topic of the article. Hopefully readers feel empowered enough to delete their own forward-slashes.

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