It's a common technique to skip li escape tags in order to remove whitespace between li's. This is particularly relevant when using inline-block styling. can.Mustache seems to not construct document fragments when end li's are omitted.
Additionally, there seems to be extra whitespace added when leaving the li in.
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.google.com>Gooooogle</a>
- {{#bar}}<li><a href="http://www.bar.com>Bar</a>{{/bar}}
- <li><a href="http://www.foo.com>Foo</a>
- </ul>