On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:40:44 +0100 Eckehard Berns <ecki-suckl...@ecki.to> wrote:
> I see why you wish for a stricter approach. I don't believe this will > happen anytime soon. It's already happening! Everyone can choose for himself ;). > I'm not sure about that. SGML has DTDs that describe what you're allowed > to do and what not. So in theory browsers could reject non-validating > HTML pages as well. No need to switch to XML for that. But I would doubt > that browsers would do this. In theory they could, and that would be conforming behaviour, but the reality looks different. > Not bad for the web. Bad for me! :) I write lots of HTML at work. I tend > to write validating HTML usually - except when encountering features > that can't be described with valid HTML (HTML5 fixes this thou, at least > for me). If I had to write XHTML I would get very angry pretty fast. Yes, that depends on personal taste. Just like people who are too lazy to comment their code, I see it as laziness when people don't check the well-formedness of their markup. Don't take it as an insult, it's everybody's freedom after all. But you need to ask what's favorable for everyone. > As said before, browsers could reject non-validating HTML as well. They could but sadly don't. There are good reasons for this, because the web developed this way, but I like the secondary perspective ;). > So in the end we disagree because of personal preference. That's fine > with me. Everybody is free to do what he likes. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
