On 29 Okt., 18:24, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What? no rules were used when you coded in assembly? > > There are always rules in everything. In assembler they're predictable > and absolute though. > With html a lot of things are only 'hints' and it invisibly does > whatever it wants without telling you what happened.
That's because hordes of HTML authors didn't care to learn/write HTML properly and thus browser vendors had to make browsers, e.g. their HTML parsers very error forgiving (mostly referred to tag soup parsers) - also because no error handling was ever specified in those specs. Interestingly this is going to be addressed in the HTML 5 specification. --Klaus
