JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 26 Dec 2001: > Yep, I as a web user somehow care about that. Right, you get the > job of explaining that to the dozens of Mozilla users.
Considering there is no one to complain to at Mozilla, as there is no end user support, I fail to see how this is an issue > >> No, a browser should render only *valid* HTML. >> > > What should it do when presented with 99.44% valid HTML? Like say > a missing DTD line? It goes into "quirks" mode, if I understand correctly. Emulates the buggyness and, as the name implies, quirks of older browsers > >> If that were the case, then there'd be no such thing as an HTML >> editor that produces invalid HTML. >> > > And who would be producing such magical, perfect software? And > what if the invalid HTML was written by hand and you had only a > person to blame? Microsoft doesn't make it, that's for sure. And if it was written by hand and had only the person who wrote it to blame, I'd blame them > >> Can you imagine a compiler that would compile invalid code, > > I can list a few for you. How about some that *output* invalid > code too? Let's see it... Wait... I remember a funny story one time about a guy putting the expression "A" into the source for a program. I'm not sure what language... Something old and propriatary. It turned a simple "A" into like 3 lines of code, something like if (a); a = a; print a; or something. > >> making >> a guess as to exactly where you meant to put that END IF? That's >> just bloody stupid, and the rendering of invalid HTML is just as >> bloody stupid. >> > > Again I ask, what should this hypothetical "perfect HTML only" > browser do when confronted with slightly imperfect HTML? Crash? > Display a MessageBox() saying "I don't understand this HTML, > sorry"? Automatically send an email to the webmaster of the site > bitching at him so much that he finally blocks this mythical > perfect browser from browsing there? What course of action should > be taken? Display it as the spec says it should be displayed. If that means ignoring all tags of a certain type because of where they are nested, oh well, too bad. Enough people bitch at the guy who runs the site, maybe he'll get an HTML for Dummies book and figure out how to actually be a webmaster -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
