The Web Runs On Tolerance

Terence Eden:

the web works because browsers are tolerant...Yes, it takes an awful lot of effort from browser manufacturers to make "do what I mean, not what I say" a reality. But the world is better for it.

That's the crucial mistake that XHTML made...It had an intolerant ideology.

Can you imagine what the web would be like now-a-days if XHTML had won? Everywhere you go you’d see: “XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag…”

Instead, everywhere you go you see “Application error: a client-side exception has occurred”, lol.