Imagine a programming language where the compiler took all the lines in the program that didn鈥檛 typecheck, silently removed them from the program, then ran what remained
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Did we learn the wrong lessons from the failure of XHTML? (Even the folks who thought they wanted XHTML would sometimes mess up and give their non-IE6 users parse errors, e.g., depending on the content in their CMS.)
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There was a fairly serious discussion around 2000 or so that maybe the fault tolerance of CSS (and HTML) was a design mistake. I think time has delivered an answer, but at the time we really did wonder if maybe it had been an unforced error. Uh, so to speak.
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Replying to @meyerweb @AmeliasBrain @Litherum
HTML and CSS today are also very different from the way they were in 2000; now the fault tolerance is clearly specified and interoperable, rather than varying between implementations due to being left (particularly in HTML's case) up to the implementation.

Aug 10, 2022 路 7:23 PM UTC

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