Do any of you guys do this here? Google does it I know and it reduces load times and server load slightly. Check out the source of the Google home page, you won't see </html> or </body> etc. Certain tags only of course.
Leaving tags unclosed to reduce load time
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I'd have to think the difference in load time and server load would be so minuscule that it wouldn't make any noticeable difference. I prefer to have my code validate.
Google home (US version) is HTML5 and is missing the closing tags just like buddy described. It also throws 39 errors and several warnings when you try to validate it.
Oh, you're right....
It's missing the </body> tag.
By the way, how can you see it's HTML5?
In my opinion it's just like XHTML....
Run it through W3's validator. It might not be HTML5, it's just what the validator came back with as it automatically tries to determine the doctype.
The W3C Markup Validation Service