Sorry for replying to single message with two.
Anthony J. Bentley said:
> HTML5 has been some steps forward and some steps back. But one of the
> unambiguously good things they did was drop any pretense of SGML
> compatibility, and introduce well‐defined error handling rules (instead
> of the XML practice of dropping things on the floor as soon as it sees
> a missing angle bracket).
IMO this is the worst thing about HTML currently. There may be only
three possible rules for sane markup language:
* drop offendig subtree,
* abort rendering on first error or
* replace malformed document with warning.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Received on Fri Oct 31 2014 - 21:57:09 CET