On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:04:07 -0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 17:50:20 +0200, Axel Berger wrote:
>
> > The world would be a much better place now, if early on all browser
> > vendors had agreed *not* to guess but simply display nothing but "syntax
> > error" on all non-valid pages.
> >
> Don't any of the web page editors and/or the people using them use
> HTMLtidy to check HTML pages before publication?

 Maybe, but they[1] test them on a specified list of browsers[2] and
any deviation from pixel perfect and intended interactions has to be fixed
on *those* browsers no matter what it does to standards compliance.

[1] At least in the bigger teams. I have seen this in more than one place.
[2] The list comes from log analytics and aims to catch some high
percentage of users - the rest don't matter.

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