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Incorrect. HTML5 synthesized the exact behavior that was closest to the majority of browsers. But not all browsers agreed (e.g. Mozilla would change its HTML pa
by domenicd 12y ago
Incorrect. HTML5 synthesized the exact behavior that was closest to the majority of browsers. But not all browsers agreed (e.g. Mozilla would change its HTML parsing behavior depending on network packet boundaries), so there was still effort aligning with the newly-specced common parsing algorithm. At the time there was much skepticism that such alignment was even possible.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y ago> Mozilla would change its HTML parsing behavior depending on network packet boundaries I want to know more...
- domenicd 12y agoSome links: https://blog.mozilla.org/mrbkap/2013/08/12/the-old-html-parser-is-dead-long-live-the-html-parser/ https://blog.mozilla.org/mrbkap/2013/08/12/the-old-html-pars... http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1138169545&count=1 http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1138169545&count=1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324875 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324875