Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
by WBrentWilliams on Monday October 27, 2014 @08:21PM
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I'd say the fault with HTML/JS/CSS is that the implementation of the rendered (the browser) broke the stack by not being strict in what it emitted. Put another way, a badly formed page should render badly and/or issue errors. For historical reasons, browsers did not and do not. Hence, the reason the browsers are "broken".
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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
by leni536 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @04:52AM
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It's quite a game theoretical problem. Make a strictly standard compliant browser and nobody will use it, since it won't display most of the websites. You have to render badly formed pages somehow if you want your browser compete with other browsers, since they are doing the same.