> Considering all the misery inflicted by computer crime that's enabled by the forgiving attitude, I 100% agree. Parsers should strictly adhere to a standard,

> Considering all the misery inflicted by computer crime that's enabled by the forgiving attitude, I 100% agree. Parsers should strictly adhere to a standard, if the standard says they should be "forgiving" and that "forgiving" is well defined then all parsers should act this way. Inconsistent behavior between implementations opens its own can of worms that may leave a system in an inconsistent or insecure state.