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by masklinn 41 days ago
I don't get this reply. GP didn't say anything about parsing algorithms, they said (correct) things about hard errors on the web.
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why for? the reply is about factual historical experience with webpage hard errors.

Would you like to have a law that forbids you, under penalty of fine, to read any book you buy or borrow that is lacking or has damaged pages?

I thought they were just bolstering the refutation of TFA's assertion that XHTML is strictly better because of its parsing algorithm.