Cees De Groot wrote:

>On 10/27/05, Jon Hylands <jon at huv.com> wrote:
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>>I wrote this web browser in 1997/98. HTML has changed a lot since then. A
>>significant amount of my work on the web browser was making the system
>>handle all the "bad" HTML that was out there.
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>>I have no idea what the current situation is.
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>Better; much better. Actually, from what I've heard it is rather
>straightforward(*) to implement the layout bits for clean (css-based)
>modern html. Your browser probably supports most of the old quirks
>that were implemented then and are still supported, and that seems to
>be a large part of implementing a browser.
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>An example is WithStyle, the VW browser. There's a marked difference
>in rendering quality between oldschool (like my homepage -
>www.cdegroot.com) and newschool (like my company page - www.tric.nl)
>layouts. The old stuff seems much harder to represent correctly...
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>(*)straightforward ~= a small task...
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I have spent quite a lot of time trying to get html tables to render 
nice in Squeak
and I can tell you that it is a PITA.
Karl