- From: David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:09:52 +0000
2009/2/11 Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, David Gerard wrote: >> Think of tag-soupness as a feature, not a bug. Shudder in horror at what >> this implies. > I don't think that's a particularly controversial position here. People in > other mailing lists involved in the development of HTML5 might disagree. :-) It's definitely a feature, not a bug, in Wikitext - Wikipedia has many contributors who write great articles but basically can't work a computer otherwise. If it wasn't, Wikipedia would be written in immaculately nested XML ... and XML was expressly *not* designed for humans to write, but for machines to talk to each other. Whether it's a feature for HTML, well, I suspect the people who write parsers have a few choice words on the matter ;-) - d.
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