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0 pointsTuringTest3y ago0 comments

> This sounds like another headache. I don’t want my tools silently breaking.

Yet here you are, posting your comment through a web browser on a web page. And the new standard that was intended to make web pages display catastrophic failure and stop processing with each error (XHTML) was never widely adopted. Makes you wonder why? Maybe the nature of an open data platform for human consumption has something inherent to it so that it's better to accept a certain degree of inaccuracy and inconsistencies in its stored data?

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seoaeu3y ago

> Maybe the nature of an open data platform for human consumption has something inherent to it so that it's better to accept a certain degree of inaccuracy and inconsistencies in its stored data?

That's complete nonsense. The only reason that web browsers accept malformed webpages is because there were already orders of magnitude too many webpages that violated the relevant specs when XHTML was introduced. If web browsers had enforced XHTML from the start, then everyone would have damn well followed it.

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seoaeu3y ago

> Maybe the nature of an open data platform for human consumption has something inherent to it so that it's better to accept a certain degree of inaccuracy and inconsistencies in its stored data?

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