Oh those times. IE accepted <table><tr><td><tr></table> whereas Nestscape demanded <table><tr><td></td></tr></table> and would just not render anything else - just blank grey
Humans loved it, when they had to type all this by hand, because missing /td would not kill your page.
Permissiveness won out.
I also remember the day JavaScript hit the net.
and all those "chat rooms" that did <meta refresh> to look live suddenly had no defence against this
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> IE was holding back the progress
Oh those times. IE accepted <table><tr><td><tr></table> whereas Nestscape demanded <table><tr><td></td></tr></table> and would just not render anything else - just blank grey
Humans loved it, when they had to type all this by hand, because missing /td would not kill your page.
Permissiveness won out.
I also remember the day JavaScript hit the net.
and all those "chat rooms" that did <meta refresh> to look live suddenly had no defence against this
<script>document.write('http://twistys.com/folder/porn.jpg')</script>
or alert bombs