Posted by Toby Inkster on 05/31/06 23:50

David Dorward wrote:

> RFC 2854 says

Oh, you can't take that into account. It practically gives carte blanche
to serve *any* old tag soup as text/html.

| In addition to the development of standards, a wide variety of
| additional extensions, restrictions, and modifications to HTML were
| popularized by NCSA's Mosaic system and subsequently by the
| competitive implementations of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
| Internet Explorer; these extensions are documented in numerous books
| and online guides.
| [...]
| Due to the long and distributed development of HTML, current
| practice on the Internet includes a wide variety of HTML variants.

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