Re: Comments on HTML WG face to face meetings in France Oct 08

Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> It's working OK for CSS so far, no?  It's working OK for HTML4 (modulo 
> interop problems due to everything being undefined).
> 

No, it isn't. CSS parsing is a colossal mess in which many stylesheets 
depend on specific bugs in specific versions of specific browsers.

The inability of vendors to correctly implement the much simpler CSS 
parsing rules makes me wonder whether we have any hope that they will 
correctly implement the far more complex HTML 5 parsing algorithm.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Refactoring HTML Just Published!
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Received on Monday, 17 November 2008 15:37:01 UTC