On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:52:36 +0200
Deloptes  wrote:

> 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.
>
> the problem here is the loose standard. If it were XML, then it would be
> true, but HTML allows too much BS per design.

 HTML is one end of the problem, CSS is another. With the best will
in the world laying stuff out with stylesheets and semantic markup is far
from easy to get right - actually it's pretty near impossible in general.

 If you think XML would help think again - look at the state of the
art in open source XSL-FO support:

 https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html

 Notice how many red lines there are, even for 'basic' elements.
Don't get me started on debugging XSLT - I've done it and escaped with most
of my sanity.

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