[kde-linux] Cannot access certain site

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 13:45, david wrote:
> > Agreed.  Using your technique I confirm that konqueror has the same
> > problem on this system too.  However, firefox does not.
>
> Better - or different - error handling would be my guess. Handling HTML
> tag soup has been a problem for browser developers for a long time now.
> I'm not familiar with how much the W3C standards have to say about error
> handling beyond the standard guideline of "If you don't recognize it,
> ignore it" (applied to tags / attributes / values). When faced with
> items like missing closing tags, the browser basically has to "guess"
> where the page author wanted to put the missing tag. How a browser
> figures that out varies from browser to browser. IE is notorious for
> accepting almost anything, partly because it's willing to take more
> radical guesses (based on its programmers ideas of what users expect
> pages to look like). Netscape / Mozilla were more likely to stick with
> standards and simply reject the mess if they couldn't make sense of
> them. I don't know where Konqueror falls on that spectrum.

Sadly, too many sites are only checked against IE.  Nothing much we can do 
about that, apart from complain to the site owners.

Anne