Re: [Slightly OT] How to process lightweight text markup languages?

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

Le lundi 19 janvier 2015 21:12:41 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt a écrit :

> No, this is a fallicy. The Internet (and world in general) would be better 
> off if documents that are sufficiently malformed were simply not displayed 
> at all. In that case, the document source would be fixed if anyone cares 
> enough.

Alas the forces of competition resulted in the opposite: if a browser doesn't display a malformed HTML, users blame the browser and try another one. By developing Wasabee I was amazed by the proportion of sites with malformed HTML code. I guess it was always close to 100% but over time it is even closer. Chances are that only the W3 site is okay...

> As it is, the attempts at autocorrection leave huge holes in the safety of 
> the Internet (thus the world at large, as the Internet has become so 
> intergral). Malware filters cannot by their nature guess all of the ways 
> that some idiot tool will deal with malformed input, meaning that there are 
> always holes in the defenses to exploit.

Only the input is idiot. The tool has to be smart. See for instance the algorithm in Wasabee that corrects an ill-formed HTML tree. Same in real life: sometimes smart guys have to find solutions for idiots (customers, bosses,...)

> And for what? So that people who can't be bothered to get their documents 
> formatted correctly still get some results (thus reenforcing their bad 
> behavior). Bah humbug!!
> 
>                               Randy.

You'd like to start a new, parallel Web with only well formatted documents ?
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