On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:02:41AM +0000, Don Cox wrote:
> How about satisfying everyone by having a preferences option to set the
> parser for these entities to "IE", "Strict" or "Opera" ? That would keep
> everybody happy, until next time.
"This site doesn't werk!"
"Did you set the prefs to IE ?"
And I can imagine a lot of others. Unfortunately, the majority of
websites are designed for IE these days and it's rare to have a
website that doesn't work with it (and if it does, be sure the webmaster
will fix it quickly otherwise he loses a significant audience).
You could strictly stick to the "standard" as published by the w3c but
there are a lot of things not properly covered by it and which leave
room for several interpretations. As Olli said, the web would be a better
place if Mosaic throwed a "syntax error" on every bogosity found on
a webpage in those early days.
If you want to check if a webpage is "standard compliant" (if that means
anything), don't use V but http://validator.w3.org/ which was designed
for that.
Examples ? Let's try a random webpage:
<TABLE BORDER=1 WIDTH=100%>
^
Error: an attribute value must be quoted if it contains
any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits, hyphens,
and periods; use quotes if in doubt (explanation...)
Let's ignore attribute values without quotes then. Oops, lot of sites
break.
</UL>
^
Error: end tag for "LI" omitted; possible causes include a missing
end tag, improper nesting of elements, or use of an element where
it is not allowed
Oops, disabling that breaks a lot of websites too.
Error: end tag for "P" omitted; possible causes include a missing
end tag, improper nesting of elements, or use of an element where
it is not allowed (explanation...)
Disable it ? Bad idea..
And so on.. Tried writing a page by hand ? If you follow all the rules
of the validator you end up spending quite some time closing tags no
browser cares about (because it's unecessary to care about them, at
a programming point of view and at a practical point of view).
So I'm not convinced that adding options to be stript, emulate browser
A, emulate browser B, etc.. would be a good idea. Better try to display
and handle properly as much web pages as possible which is, after all,
what people expect a browser to do.
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