Re: Mozilla's rendering of slightly buggy HTML

[Dave Huang]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Henri Sivonen  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>(XML is another story.) OTOH, increasing the stack limit to allow even 
>more broken pages is most likely not worth the effort. Authors should 
>just fix their HTML.

They should, but like it or not, most people use IE as their HTML
validator--if it displays in IE, they consider it working. I like
David Gerard's idea of letting the user know that the site they're
visiting has broken HTML, but render it anyway. Lynx does this, for 
example ("Alert!: Maximum nesting of HTML elements exceeded.", "** Bad 
HTML!!  Use -trace to diagnose. **"). If all browsers would do the same 
thing, especially IE, the amount of crap HTML on the web would be 
significantly reduced :)
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