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> force the developers to fix their HTML Developers? In the early days of the web it wasn't developers writing HTML. It was anybody who wanted to publish anyt
by perilunar 3y ago
> force the developers to fix their HTML
Developers?
In the early days of the web it wasn't developers writing HTML. It was anybody who wanted to publish anything on the web. Real programmers didn't touch it. That is why browsers had to be tolerant of bad code.
- danbruc 3y agoThey did not have to, they could have rejected broken HTML. Writing valid HTML is not really harder than writing invalid but still parsable HTML, it just requires some additional tedious work fixing all the mistakes. Would this have been bad for adoption? Maybe.