- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:36:24 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > It's working OK for CSS so far, no? It's working OK for HTML4 (modulo > interop problems due to everything being undefined). > No, it isn't. CSS parsing is a colossal mess in which many stylesheets depend on specific bugs in specific versions of specific browsers. The inability of vendors to correctly implement the much simpler CSS parsing rules makes me wonder whether we have any hope that they will correctly implement the far more complex HTML 5 parsing algorithm. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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