[Building Sakai] IE 8

[Zach A. Thomas]

On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Stephen Swinsburg wrote:

> Finally got around to reading that article and wading through the  
> guff about Martians... The main point I got from it was:
>
> <quote>
> ....there are all these web pages out there with errors, because all  
> the early web browser developers made super-liberal, friendly,  
> accommodating browsers that loved you for who you were and didn’t  
> care if you made a mistake. And so there were lots of mistakes.
> </quote>
>
> Perhaps the Internet would be a better place if HTML+CSS was treated  
> more like almost every other programming language and had some  
> syntax checking. Try viewing a broken XML document in any good  
> browser, it won't work. Browser developers have been far too lenient  
> in the past allowing poorly written HTML to work. Make *ALL* HTML 
> +CSS conform to a standard just like a real programming language  
> MUST, and order will soon  be restored to the Internet.

If I may play devil's advocate for a second:
Is it possible that the web succeeded _because_ the browser would  
permit anything?

On the other hand, it's been close to 20 years; Perhaps we can be more  
rigorous from now on.

Zach