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Man, a lot of people here are violently opposed to allowing invalid markup. I think that the lenience web browsers afford site creators is a boon. It is one of
by LogicHoleFlaw 19y ago
Man, a lot of people here are violently opposed to allowing invalid markup. I think that the lenience web browsers afford site creators is a boon. It is one of the key factors in the democratization of the web. Low barriers to entry have been a critical factor in the success and organic growth of the web. Requiring perfect syntax and markup as a method of keeping out the plebes is the kind of self-righteous cult-of-the-machine which drives out the very people who provide content and value to the web.
Now, if you do have correct markup and the browser developers still screw it up... off with their heads! Shame on you, you should know better.
- ken 19y agoShouldn't we "democratize" other programs, then? How about making GCC or CLISP accept incorrect syntax? That would allow more people to provide content and value. We might end up with a lot of programs that only compiled correctly on one platform (gcc quirks mode!), but it would lower the barrier-to-entry for new programmers.