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> Who says the page has to be replaced? Webkit and Opera (IIRC) happily render the page up to the first error that they encounter.

That shocks me quite a bit. This definitely didn't use to be the case for Safari, early versions implemented draconian XML error handling and refused to display non-well-formed documents.

> Gecko's decision to do the YSOD was a bad one.

Meh.

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It's still draconian error handling, all the spec says is that you have to stop parsing and notify the user.

> Meh.

There were many circumstances that prevented the adoption of XHTML-as-XHTML. One of them was the fact that your users would get a cryptic error page, with no context, if something went wrong.

What Webkit does is much less threatening.

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