Archive for October, 2009

Are We Still Arguing About Validation?

Posted by John in HTML5, Rants on October 7, 2009

As someone who has been teaching HTML for over a decade, I have recollections of students (authoring in Notepad) in total panic because they forgot to close their </table>s, and thus Netscape 3 would deliver a blank page (Draconian error handling has a history too) – I also remember that they only made that mistake once, and never forgot it after that.

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