On Sun, 05 Aug 2001 02:06:55 -0400,
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:Christopher Jahn wrote:

:> So what you're saying is that since you're too lazy to write 
:> good code, Mozilla should have many more lines of code to 
:> overcome your laziness?

:In my opinion, Opera is a good example of a browser that's almost 
:totally unforgiving with regard to html errors or sloppily written code. 
:  Unfortunately, we don't live in perfect world, and until the Opera 
:authors understand that, it's almost impossible to use their product as 
:your only browser. I think the Mozilla folks *do* understand that, and 
:that if there's a way to make it view virtually everything out there 
:(well written or not), people will use it.


In an ideal world (i.e., probably after 1.0), it would  be very forgiving
in its rendering, *but* would display a 'this HTML is crap' icon :-)

(Related bugs:
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54726
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71726
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72935 )


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