Bryce, only you would bitch about something so damn trivial. Scott has worked his ass off on this software, which despite skaky DB drivers is fast, beautiful, and more or less up all the time. And YOU, the Galileo of pointless bitching, find it too hard on your delicate fingers to type a damn tag.
SHEESH! I'll bet your parents threw a party when you left home!
The issue came up about 3 years ago. Somebody quoted a passage from the W3C (sp?) website that demonstrated that a closing P tag is *not* required.
Maybe they backpeddled in the updates since, but it was not required a few years ago. Plus it is dumb extra typing and clutter, brought to us by the same people who invented that f*cken semicolon no doubt. I think of the P tag like an infix operator, such a plus sign in math or "." in Perl or "&" in VBscript.
So shuv your cackling where stellar photon radiation does not reach.
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... the P tag was never an "infix operator". It was always a container. Which meant it had a beginning and an end. It's just that until HTML 4.0, the ending tag was optional.