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HTML (and the Web in general) has many, many examples of this, for example the way we parse <i><b>x</i></b> is required to be compatible with pages that relied
by Hixie 14y ago
HTML (and the Web in general) has many, many examples of this, for example the way we parse <i><b>x</i></b> is required to be compatible with pages that relied on the way early browsers did it. In fact almost all of the Web's quirks are because of this.