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by ehsankia 1703 days ago
That may be your viewpoint but browsers have historically always taken the other viewpoint. Take HTML parsing for example. You can miss closing tags and a ton of other stuff, and it'll all work on a best-effort basis.

The browsers job is to do the best it can, that's what users want. No one would use a browser that breaks at the smallest tiniest error in the source code.

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> browsers have historically always taken the other viewpoint.

except for the short-lived XHTML fad which tbh I kind of miss every day

XHTML is still supported and works even with HTML5 tags.