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You don't need the quotes in many cases.

Instead of:

Try

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Another fun trick is using <!doctypehtml> since the spec says to pretend a space is there if not present for whatever reason (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parse-er...)

Cute, but I just ran both your suggestions through the HTML validator at https://validator.w3.org/nu/ and neither of them validated.

The first error read "Bad value data: for attribute href on element link: Premature end of URI."

The 2nd error read "Missing space before doctype name."

Depending on the context these hacks may still be useful, but I personally think that both production sites and code golfing should require valid HTML.

You can't use the error handling part of the spec without invoking an error. Good minifiers will do the same, fwiw.

I run this in prod. Never had an issue with it.

Well damn. That is an oddity.

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