Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> the idea of "broken code must render anyway" >> is riped. It must die, a painfull dead, because is the father and >> mother of the tag soup, that is more vile than the Borg and Microsoft >> *combined* > > Browser vendors are not willing to remove support for it, because it > would break old websites. HTML5 says broken code is invalid, but aims > to standardize in great detail how browsers should render it anyway, > instead of demanding (impractically) that they throw up their arms and > die like XHTML insists on. A "feature" of XHTML that practically > everyone skips in practice by serving it as text/html.
Even if you want to use it, "some browsers" don't support it so you end with ugly user-agent sniffing hacks. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
