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    You might find Joels article, Martian Headsets to be of interest. Also of special note is RFC 793: Robustness Principle, which explicitly states that TCP implementations should try their best to parse rubbish. This principle has since been applied to browsers. Commented Jun 7, 2013 at 19:30
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    @Brian: Robustness means you should not fall over when you receive crap. It does not mean you have to make sense of crap. Commented Jun 7, 2013 at 20:10
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    XHTML does use strict parsing. Commented Jun 7, 2013 at 22:07
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    Is it just me, or are none of these answers very satisfying? Commented Jun 14, 2013 at 23:01
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    @gsingh2011 None of the answers are satisfying, but my answer is the truth. Some of us here were active on the net that long ago :-) But yeah, it's astonishing how much junk we're left with for such simple reasons. Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 23:48