Comment by barnabee
11 hours ago
Because HTML is designed to be written by everyone, not just “engineers” and we’d rather be able to read what they have to say even if they get it wrong.
11 hours ago
Because HTML is designed to be written by everyone, not just “engineers” and we’d rather be able to read what they have to say even if they get it wrong.
It's more that it's exceedingly easy to generate bad X(H)ML strings especially back when you had PHP concatenating strings as you went. Most HTML on the web is live/dynamic so there's no developer to catch syntax errors and "make build" again.