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AFAIK all major browsers have converged on the parsing algorithm described in the HTML5 spec. It‘s super lenient and very messy but at least it‘s consistent.
by realityking 9y ago
AFAIK all major browsers have converged on the parsing algorithm described in the HTML5 spec.
It‘s super lenient and very messy but at least it‘s consistent.
IMHO this was one of the biggest benefits coming out of the HTML5 efforts.
- gsnedders 9y agoIndeed. 15 years ago it was a huge amount of work reverse-engineering other browsers around parser behaviour; 10 years ago it was a huge amount of work finding where the draft spec broke sites; today it's pretty much just implementing the spec.