1. html is ascii based, from the headers to the body, naturally leading to string manipulation 2. browser engines try very hard to accept as much malformed slo

1. html is ascii based, from the headers to the body, naturally leading to string manipulation 2. browser engines try very hard to accept as much malformed slop as possible and still give usable results ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle ), this was probably a mistake