- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 02:34:00 -0500
- To: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, www-style@w3.org
Tantek Çelik wrote: > Given that tag soup fundamentally doesn't reflect a tree structure, it > should come as no surprise that different teams of programmers would come up > with different approximations. ... > Tasman certainly uses a "well-defined parse tree" for valid markup. > However, for tag soup, we simply tried to make sure that common styling > effects worked, and paid very little attention to tag soup DOM. Of course. I was simply pointing out that existing tag-soup browsers did indeed produce tag-soup "DOM"s in some situations, much as people would like to believe otherwise. If my mail sounded like it was expressing any sort of value judgement, that was completely unintended; I merely pointed to factual information. > After all, isn't it better to wean web authors off of tag soup rather than > continue to encourage them to depend on it by working too hard to make it > work predictably? Amen. ;) -Boris
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