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How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS (alexcabal.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Wait... I just noticed this:

[XHTML] never took off on the web, in part because in a website context so much HTML is generated by templates and libraries that it’s all too easy to introduce a syntax error somewhere along the line; and unlike HTML, where a syntax error would still render something, the tiniest syntax error in XHTML means the whole thing gets thrown out by the browser and you get the Yellow Screen of Death.

This confuses me; don't you want to make sure you are always generating a syntactically valid document, rather than hoping that the browser will make something suitable up to work around your mistake?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I feel the idea was that anyone should be able to make a webpage by just copy pasting snippits and to help with that html and Javascript will attempt to continue as best as it can, even if there are glaring issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That approach makes a lot of sense for amateur web sites, but less sense for professional web sites.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Oh yes, Front-end developers suffer this decision daily. Luckily there things like Typescript to ease the pain.

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