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Posted by John Thingstad on 04/21/07 13:55
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:50:38 +0200, John Thingstad
<john.thingstad@chello.no> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:05:02 +0200, John Thingstad
> <john.thingstad@chello.no> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:48:18 +0200, Robert Maas, see
>> http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem642b@yahoo.com> 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.
>> SGML is more difficult to parse. Then there is the fact that many
>> cites rely on errors in the HTML being handled just like in
>> Microsoft Explorer. I can't count the number of times I heard that Opera
>> was broken just to find that it was a HTML error on the web cite that
>> Explorer got around.
>>
>
> I am a bit reluctant to reply to this one.
> Suffice it to day I was warning him about he difficulties.
> I don't know or care about the difficulties about creating a web browser.
> Of course that is not exactly true, hence the reluctance.
>
sorry about the word pun in line two.
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