Re: Support Existing Content

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