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It was NOT the easiest part before HTML5. Thanks to HTML5 effort, it now is. This is the great accomplishment of HTML5.
by sanxiyn 5y ago
It was NOT the easiest part before HTML5. Thanks to HTML5 effort, it now is. This is the great accomplishment of HTML5.
- dmitriid 5y agoCompared to layout, paint, keeping track of live objects in the DOM etc. it was probably still the easiest part :) HTML5 did bring more order to the chaos, but I doubt it reduced it that much.
- sanxiyn 5y agoI think HTML used to be harder than HTTP. I think now it is easier.
- benibela 5y agoIt became harder In the past you could write a straightforward parser for the pages you had. When it did not work on some other pages, you could say, that page has invalid HTML, it is not expected to be parseable. Now you have to spend a lot of time to implement everything in HTML5
- goto11 5y agoHTML still have a definition of valid HTML which is reasonably simple to parse. Now it also have exact specifications for how to parse invalid HTML which is of course much a more complex task.