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>>> the best software accepts many formats and "deals with it," >> We collectively discovered that we were underestimating the long term costs, by a lot, so it
by fl7305 2y ago
>>> the best software accepts many formats and "deals with it,"
>> We collectively discovered that we were underestimating the long term costs, by a lot, so its lustre has faded.
>> If you'd like to see why, read the HTML 5 parsing portion of the spec.
> Can you give a hint as to what the issue is that one should find reading a portion of the HTML 5 spec
I think the point was that the HTML 5 spec tries to parse all kinds of weird input instead of drawing a line in the sand and forcing the input to follow a simple format?
- Spivak 2y agoIt's ungodly complicated to be sure but websites from 30 years ago also still render unmodified so it's hard to say it's bad all of the time.
- jerf 2y agoIt isn't bad. In fact it's quite good. But it is very much a case of closing the barn door after the animals got out. You see in the standard that the effort was put to corral them back in, and I'm very glad they did, but it certainly was not free.