[whatwg] Article: Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization

Mike Wilcox mike at mikewilcox.net
Mon Jul 12 05:44:07 PDT 2010


On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Google: <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0> - 35 errors

That's a little different. Google purposely uses unstandardized, incorrect HTML in ways that still render in a browser in order to make it more difficult for screen scrapers. They also "break it" in a different way every week.

Mike Wilcox
http://clubajax.org
mike at mikewilcox.net
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