https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52253

--- Comment #2 from Tim Starling <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm tempted to say this is an issue with said badly written clients, not
> MediaWiki, and therefore this is invalid...

It's not about technical correctness, it's about courtesy. Yes, there are
hundreds of clients that are broken in this way, and it is the fault of the
hundreds of developers who individually wrote those clients, but the easiest
place to fix the problem is in MediaWiki and the WMF frontend.

In any case, client compatibility is an essential part of developing web server
software. If the site was completely broken in IE or Firefox, you wouldn't say
the bug was invalid. The only difference is scale -- whether we should care
about the long tail of badly-written HTML parsers. I am saying that we should
care.

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