The overwhelming complexity of the HTML5 parser [1] is a testament to the 30 years of implementation quirks it's been forced to absorb. [1]: https://html.spec.

The overwhelming complexity of the HTML5 parser [1] is a testament to the 30 years of implementation quirks it's been forced to absorb. [1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html