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It 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 pag
by benibela 5y ago
It 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.