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and lots of experiments, new websites and happy users appeared because HTML has been accepted leniently

• pbsdp 13y ago
  And we've wasted vast mountains of money dealing with the resulting brokenness of the web. Those people would have figured out how to ship a web page; they'd just would have had so much trouble figuring out why one they shipped was't working, because the browser would have told them.
• skrebbel 13y ago
  would those experimental users have given up right when the browser reported "Missing </p> tag"?
  • TeMPOraL 13y ago
    They would probably be more encouraged and happier to develop even more because they would understand HTML, which is a simple but powerful concept of block markup, and not some random pile of characters in angle brackets.
  • enqk 13y ago
    That end tags were an option and not mandatory was a feature of the SGML language that HTML was based on. I'm not sure specifically if this was allowed in the description for the P tag, however I suspect it is. So this was entirely by design and probably not all that difficult to implement. That it might not be appealing to some I can understand. I suspect the creators of SGML had very different concerns. I like that HTML has a very humane interface.