According to w3c </TD> and </TR> tags are optional, so the following table is perfectly valid.
<table>
<tr>
<td>google
<td>chrome
</table>
And all browsers I've tested it with render the table fine. I just wanted to ask if this is generally considered safe to use, or if older browsers, which I don't have access to, cause problems. Thanks.
It reduces gzip html size on a page with many tables by a few percent.