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Posted by Pascal Costanza on 04/20/07 15:34
dpapathanasiou wrote:
>> 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.
>
> But this problem was entirely preventable: if Netscape and early
> versions of IE had rejected incorrectly-formatted html, both people
> hacking raw markup and web authoring tools would have learned to
> comply with the spec, and parsing html would not be the nightmare it
> is today.
If early browsers had rejected incorrect html, the web would have never
been that successful.
What's important to keep in mind is that those who create the content
are end-users. It must be easy to create content, and shouldn't require
any specific skills (or not more than absolutely necessary).
Stupid error messages from stupid technology is a hindrance, not an enabler.
Pascal
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