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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by chalst on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:02PM (#27884104)
hyperpage's analogy would work if the property was "avoids undefined behaviour", rather than "avoids nontermination". When we encounter a webpage, we are being expected to execute potentially complex, well-being threatening code whose behaviour is about as easy to predict as obfuscated C.
Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by lucideer on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:43PM (#27885286)
True but again only if we're talking about parsing the web. This is about HTML files the author is producing themselves.
Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by apotheon on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:53PM (#27886051)
PDFs are capable of the same issues.