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Re: Rethinking HTML 5 (Was: Re: Semicolon after entities)

From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:10:41 +0100
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Cc: public-html@w3.org
To: tina@greytower.net 


On 1 May 2007, at 16:01, Tina Holmboe wrote:

>   The /specification of a markup language/ should /not/ "support" bad
>   practice. /Browsers/ should support bad practice. We don't want the
>   web to be "broken", after all.

How will the browsers know how to support bad practice? The purpose  
of putting it in the spec is so that all browsers support invalid  
HTML consistently.


- Geoffrey Sneddon
Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:23:35 GMT

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