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Posted by dorayme on 04/21/07 00:45
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<1177081954.773575.230030@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
dpapathanasiou <denis.papathanasiou@gmail.com> 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.
It's a nice fantasy that a zero tolerance policy would work. Face
it, someone would bring out a competitor that tolerated faults
and everyone would rush to use that one instead.
--
dorayme
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