Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: progress on dev.10

[David Woolley]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I was reading the HTML5 draft this week, and startled to see that it 
> discards the DTD portion of the DOCTYPE.  That will make 
> interoperability interesting...
It also effectively abandons structured nesting.  Although the official 
line is there is valid HTML5, which is structured, and invalid HTML5, 
which may not be, the requirement is that invalid HTML5 should in almost 
all cases produce a parse tree and that parse tree should be the same on 
every possible browser.  As a consequence it legitimises tag soup by 
guaranteeing that it will always produce the same parse tree, however 
bad it is. This means that Lynx will need an invalid HTML5 parse mode, 
as well as the two current ones.

There is a lot of pressure in the mainstream browser world for all 
browsers to produce exactly the same output, however badly the document 
is authored, so there a no longer any documents that are so invalid that 
they have an implementation dependent rendering.

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