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Previous versions of HTML were based on SGML. You can write a perfect SGML parser, but the developers of web browsers couldn't be bothered.
by anoncake 6y ago
Previous versions of HTML were based on SGML. You can write a perfect SGML parser, but the developers of web browsers couldn't be bothered.
- erik_seaberg 6y ago“Worse is better” strikes again. In the early days of markup hand written by amateurs, users preferred the browsers that tolerated mistakes. Now the language is defined by a common error handling procedure, instead of a grammar.