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Re: HTML syntax.



tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:54:58PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
>> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> 
>> > xmllint has an --html option for that. That said...
>> 
>> you sure that it will give a warning if tag is not closed? Cause I do not
>> think so. In fact the --html option seems to correct those missing tags.
>> All together it's a good tool, but I do not know how it applies to html5
> 
> AFAIK it does HTML4.
> 
> HTML5 is a "living standard" [1], [2] which is an euphemism for "Apple,
> Google, Microsoft and, to a slowly dwindling extent Mozilla, will tell
> you what is supposed to work today".
> 
> The W3C consortium fought tooth and nail to fix a standard and lost.
> Whatwg (the above mentioned Big Guys) imposed
> 

so another one failure of opensource and free software

> Raph Levien called that, back then in 1998, "The decommoditization of
> protocols" [1]. A visionary.
> 
> Remember this old joke (around 1990)
> 
>   Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
>   A: None, they just define darkness as an industry standard.
> 
> Well, we arrived there.
> 

we are arriving in the middle ages - soon they start burning people alive or
send them to concentration camps for not believing in green energy,
Microsoft, Google or you name it. I just tried to find a video on ARTE that
I watched some time ago. Video was called "Umweltsünder E-Auto?"
They were forced to remove it :/ from their mediathek and from youtube






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