- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:24:49 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>, matt@builtfromsource.com, public-html@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > ... > OK, but what's the actual harm of doing so? Can you describe it in > words? You've said repeatedly that you think nonconforming content is > really bad, but you haven't once explained how its existence hurts > anyone, or how wiping it out would help anyone. > ... It hurts those who want to parse HTML, but do not want to implement a full user agent (think metadata extraction, microformats, crawling, indexing...). Now I understand that what's the well-defined HTML5 parsing is for... So this sort of proves to me that the distinction between "conformant" and "parseable" documents really is meaningless. Best regards, Julian
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