Re:What is the value of browser diversity?
by forgotmypw17 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @08:52PM
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I am helping keep it by taking the time to test my websites in all the browsers I can get my hands on, including classics such as Netscape, IE, Mosaic, Lynx, and Opera (pre-WebKit).
It takes a bit of work, but I am not under any deadlines, because I only work on personal projects.
HTML is very special in its flexible parsing without compilation errors, and I want to do as much as I can to preserve it.
JavaScript is different, because it evolved when browser competition was already in effect, so there was motivation to display errors when the page was written in the wrong flavor, as was practiced by Netscape from the beginning, and joined by IE in this practice.
HTML and HTTP is also special in that they are both human-readable and human-writeable, the former even by non-specialists.
There are not many computer languages out there that have a loose grammar like HTML and HTTP. We have a real gem on our hands, and it would be smart to hold on to it.
It takes a bit of work, but I am not under any deadlines, because I only work on personal projects.
HTML is very special in its flexible parsing without compilation errors, and I want to do as much as I can to preserve it.
JavaScript is different, because it evolved when browser competition was already in effect, so there was motivation to display errors when the page was written in the wrong flavor, as was practiced by Netscape from the beginning, and joined by IE in this practice.
HTML and HTTP is also special in that they are both human-readable and human-writeable, the former even by non-specialists.
There are not many computer languages out there that have a loose grammar like HTML and HTTP. We have a real gem on our hands, and it would be smart to hold on to it.