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> It turned out that the strength of the HTML ecosystem was its fault tolerance. I don't think this was a "strength" of html so much as a necessity to not brea
by MangoToupe 11mo ago
> It turned out that the strength of the HTML ecosystem was its fault tolerance.
I don't think this was a "strength" of html so much as a necessity to not break the internet. I certainly preferred the formal nature of xhtml to html 5. But, we're stuck with needing to render obviously formally-broken documents.
- wredcoll 11mo agoSo it's not a strength it's a necessity? I'm not sure these words mean what you think they do...
- MangoToupe 11mo agoYes, I would describe this as a liability. It costs more to implement basic html interpretation with zero benefit
- rerdavies 10mo agoThe benefit accrues to developers, who get more consistent behavior across browsers. In the bad old days, errors that one browser might silently recover from would trigger unspecified recover behavior on other browsers that wasn't consistent.