[whatwg] HTML 5 : Misconceptions Documented
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sun Jan 18 15:20:28 PST 2009
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Mike Wilson wrote:
>
> Now I am just being curious ;-) but how on earth do you find all quirks
> (and if they have been specially dealt with) - is it up to reports on
> the mailing list or are you reading source code? :-)
Lachlan answered most of your questions, but I just wanted to add that
another source of information we have used is studies of actual existing
content. Several independent studies have been done on data sets of sizes
varying from hundreds of pages to literally billions of pages, and we use
that to inform our decisions too. For example, browser vendors said that
it was required that the parser treat "<image>" as "<img>", and when we
looked at actual pages, we found that indeed about 0.2% of pages required
this, including some pretty high-profile ones.
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