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Posted by Thomas F. Burdick on 04/20/07 13:03
On Apr 20, 2:05 pm, "John Thingstad" <john.things...@chello.no> wrote:
> As a ex employee of Opera I can say that writing a Web Browser is hard!
> It is not so much the parsing of correct HTML as the parsing of incorrect
> HTML that poses the problem. Let's face it. It could be simple.
> If we all used XHTML and the browser aborted with a error message
> when a error occurred. Unfortunately that is hardly the case.
This is unfortunate why? Because of the high correlation between
people who have something to say worth reading and those who can write
XML without screwing it up? Face it, HTML is a markup language
historically created directly by humans, which means you *will* get
good content with syntax errors by authors who will not fix it.
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