Yuri DeGroot wrote: > Carl> Being a person who writes software, I'm kinda biased and I > Carl>reckon the tool should implement the standard and the person > Carl>should stick to the standard. > > Ideally yes. But if the person who makes the websites makes a > mistake, I would rather have the browser make a good attempt.
Likewise. The problem arises when IE's way of interpreting mistakes becomes a `standard`. And people don't see (or learn from) their mistakes because `it works in IE, so it's OK'. > Sorry, Carl, I know this means more work for you as a programmer. My PhD thesis (nearing completion) is in this sort of area: "Error repair in LR parsers". Although I'm dealing more with syntax errors in programming languages than HTML, the principles are the same. -- Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science, |Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7859 University of Canterbury, |Fax: +64 3 364 2569 Private Bag 4800, |http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~cdc Christchurch, New Zealand. |
