Re: Browsers and syntax errors (Was: Captions for Figures...)

Paul Cohen ([email protected])
Fri, 10 Mar 1995 22:51:24 +0500

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>Making browsers forgiving about HTML syntax errors, instead of giving
>good user feedback, is probably the gravest error committed by the
>browser writers.

As a programmer, I have to disagree strongly. The most important thing a
program can be is forgiving of user errors.

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