- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:27:09 -0500
- To: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-tag@w3.org
On 11/2/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote: > > Putting some tag soup parsing algorithm in some specification takes us > > back absolutely nowhere. > > I disagree. It creates consistent browser behavior despite tag soup. More accurately perhaps, it defines the semantics of in-the-wild HTML documents independent of the implementations of the day. IMO, the importance of that cannot be overstated from the POV of having *durably* meaningful documents on the Web. Cheers, Mark.
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