- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:14:01 -0800
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Nov 14, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > How browsers parse HTML *is* how HTML must be parsed. Or at least that > is the case if you presume that current HTML has been written for > browsers and by testing what works in current browsers. Which is obviously false. Most content is written programatically or for tools that existed in the distant past (none of my content, for example, has ever been written by testing what works in current browsers even back in the days when current actually meant something). That's why my content doesn't have to be regenerated every six months. Quite frankly, the only people who hold that view of a browser-centric Web are the browser vendors, which is why everyone else complains so much about their crappy software. HTML is not defined by browser behavior; specifying it that way will just guarantee that the finished specification will eventually be called something other than HTML5. ....Roy
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