• From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...>
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• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:40:08 -0800

On Dec 15, 2010, at 23:22, rjelliffe wrote:

> The desire to perpetuate bugs in the name of supporting long-gone users has a name:  Microsoft Office.

Weird stuff on the Web is quite mainstream. Fairly recently, IMDB relied on the parser turning <image> into <img>, which is at least as bizarre as </br> behaving like <br>.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080422200613/http://imdb.com/

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Henri Sivonen
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