Comments on: Around the web http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/29/around-the-web Alex King, Denver Web Developer Thu, 24 May 2012 05:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Eric http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/29/around-the-web#comment-55898 Eric Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:18:47 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/29/around-the-web#comment-55898 re: JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default Yikes, I disagree with the author. If every rendering client forgave in exactly the same way, that would be one thing. In reality this loosey-goosey crap is what makes you spend 90% of your development time on platform parity. Strict compilers whip you because they love you! (I think I remember reading that the next version of html will codify some of the loosey-goosey forgiveness wussiness; that sounds like a reasonable path to take.) re: JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default

Yikes, I disagree with the author. If every rendering client forgave in exactly the same way, that would be one thing. In reality this loosey-goosey crap is what makes you spend 90% of your development time on platform parity. Strict compilers whip you because they love you!

(I think I remember reading that the next version of html will codify some of the loosey-goosey forgiveness wussiness; that sounds like a reasonable path to take.)

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