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Posted by Ben C on 06/19/07 10:19
On 2007-06-19, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
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>> I always thaught that the web
>> browser would try and correct the rendering of a document if it had
>> errors.
>
> It doesn't really try to correct anything. "Error correction" is an
> euphemism. It will just eat the tag soup the ordinary way.
As far as I know IE is the only true tag souper. The others will patch
up the input to make at least a valid tree structure. Whether it's a
tree corresponding to valid HTML is another matter; I get the impression
that some things are fixed up and others are not. It's reasonable to
call what they do "error correction".
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