Sorry for replying to single message with two. Anthony J. Bentley said: > HTML5 has been some steps forward and some steps back. But one of the > unambiguously good things they did was drop any pretense of SGML > compatibility, and introduce well‐defined error handling rules (instead > of the XML practice of dropping things on the floor as soon as it sees > a missing angle bracket).
IMO this is the worst thing about HTML currently. There may be only three possible rules for sane markup language: * drop offendig subtree, * abort rendering on first error or * replace malformed document with warning. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
