And FR only targets HTML 4.01 Transitional.
You don’t even need to close the tags!
(I have an XHTML background; as a result, I tend to close tags anyway, out of habit. Goes over well with the HTML5 crowd ;-] )
Ah yes. But Nully remembers the days that if you didn't close your tag here on FR you could end up with entire pages in italics or bold or large or small print.
Worst were the blinkies. Fortunately support for that tag has been humanely euthanized..
..as a consequence of those days I still close my tags.. Except for the times when I don't turn off the < sarc> tag for days.. ;-)