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There was great competition between browsers through the 1990s. Unfortunately, they were competing through 'value add' proprietary extensions and browser lock-i
by RyanMcGreal 15y ago
There was great competition between browsers through the 1990s. Unfortunately, they were competing through 'value add' proprietary extensions and browser lock-in, which is orthogonal to the issue of whether HTML parsing should be more permissive or more draconian.
- flomo 15y agoSomewhat. Microsoft reverse-engineered a lot of Netscape's rendering quirks, as well as adding their own. Being quite liberal it what it accepted certainly didn't hurt IE adoption. (And a lot of these things are now in black&white in the HTML5 spec).
- RyanMcGreal 15y agoRelated: http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html "[W]hy do we have an <img> element? Why not an <icon> element? Or an <include> element? Why not a hyperlink with an include attribute, or some combination of rel values? Why an <img> element? Quite simply, because Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins."