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Which are the faults of the authors. No one expects malformed source code to compile, a video with corrupted headers to play properly or a binary containing inv
by danbruc 10y ago
Which are the faults of the authors. No one expects malformed source code to compile, a video with corrupted headers to play properly or a binary containing invalid instructions not to crash. This decision allowed people to get away with broken web pages instead of forcing them to fix their mistakes.
- eyelidlessness 10y agoIt's a better web environment than it was years ago, but there was a time that even simple layouts required invalid code to display similarly across the browsers of the time.
- dwaltrip 10y agoThe web would not have been as successful if it wasn't for this leniency. Full correctness is only worthwhile if both attaining it does not excessively harm other goals and the cost of not attaining it is severe enough. The cost of a malformatted HTML document rendering despite the errors is not that severe compared to the benefits it provides, as we have seen.