• From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...>
• To: "xml-dev@l... List" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:21:57 -0800

On Dec 15, 2010, at 23:10, James Clark wrote:

> I believe the standard should provide a parsing mode (and a way of triggering that parsing mode) that does not attempt to be 100% backwards compatible with bizarre and confusing browser bugs.

Who would this benefit and how? If you write valid HTML, you don't hit this stuff. OTOH, if you write invalid HTML, it's worse to get different behavior from old and new browsers.

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