> Today, it's widely understood that ...
Widely claimed by some but certainly not "widely understood" because such phrasing implies a lack of controversy regarding the claim that follows it.
Widely claimed by some but certainly not "widely understood" because such phrasing implies a lack of controversy regarding the claim that follows it.
The sane approach is to be strict and provide great error messages.
A good HTML might not even look like HTML.
XHTML reveals though that HTML won on ambiguity over pedantic error identification. The adopters it needed rallied against anything that would tell them what they should do from day 1 to unambiguously say what they mean. Starting with a fundamentally flawed demo, blog, shop that ropes in some commitment and gradually fixing things on the in-for-a-dime-in-for-a-dollar investor is basically the whole business model of most fields if you exclude exchanges between the top 1-10% of buyers and sellers, which have an entirely different structure.
Even things like Facebook are an example of the manure first model. I wouldn't be stupid enough to let Zuckerberg plan lunch and as an investor I'm about as savvy as someone who bet against HTML. A billion flies can't be wrong as the saying goes.