Re: Blogging sucks

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: Blogging sucks
Date: 08:09 on 13 Oct 2005
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:30:17PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> >You'd see it all.  Go on, try it.  HTML is less hateful than you=20
> >think.  In this case.
>=20
> 1. If HTML treats <pre> THAT specially, it's more hateful than I think.

No, <pre> is not special.

< in HTML only defines markup if it's followed by !, by something that
can be a NAME, or followed by / followed by a NAME. And that's actually
an SGML feature - not something special for HTML.

Any browser that doesn't display 'a < b && c > d' is broken. And while
many browsers used to be broken, in 10 years of struggling, they managed
to fix that. Unlike the naive HTML parsing of gazillions of people.

> 2. I've already been burned by that exact example in existing=20
> html-enhanced web markup. I don't actually care if the browser or the=20
> server fucked it up.


Browsers suck. I've yet to find a main-stream browser that can actually
parse HTML2.



Abigail

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