- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:50:23 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:12:11 +0100, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> wrote: > This is the direction my thoughts have been going as well. I believe > all the major browsers expose the HTML that they are displaying as a > DOM tree for scripting and styling. The DOM tree, by its very nature, > is well formed, so each browser is, in fact, employing some algorithm > for converting tag soup into a tree. This is at least not true for Internet Explorer. > If they all employed the same algorithm, and the algorithm was > documented, we could at least have interoperable understanding of what > the tag soup "means". The implementations are certainly not interoperable, as should be clear from a number of blog posts made by Ian Hickson who studied the matter. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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