I remember reading somewhere about the history of the HTML standard that there was a camp of people at the start who wanted the html viewer to just show a synta

I remember reading somewhere about the history of the HTML standard that there was a camp of people at the start who wanted the html viewer to just show a syntax error if something in the code was out of spec. Luckily what we got was a very forgiving standard that will always try to show something, no matter how it is formatted.