From: Elliotte Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 13:23:08 CST
Erik van der Poel wrote:
> There was one issue at around that time, though, where Netscape actually
> *did* decide to tighten the parser. We went round and round in circles,
> trying to decide, and we finally bit that bullet, and it worked. I
> forget the issue, but I think it had something to do with quotes in HTML
> attributes.
At one point I remember you tightened up half-quoted attribute values;
i.e. an attribute that had an opening quote but omitted the closing
quote. That bit me pretty badly once, possibly to the point of costing a
potential client.
-- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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