Once the major browser engines support it, it's de-facto legal.
This also explains why there are so few alternative browsers. Writing a new browser that supports everything that happens to work in the major browsers is ridiculously hard.
This also explains why there are so few alternative browsers. Writing a new browser that supports everything that happens to work in the major browsers is ridiculously hard.
> This also explains why there are so few alternative browsers. Writing a new browser that supports everything that happens to work in the major browsers is ridiculously hard.
IMO one of the reasons Chrome won was because they supported both Firefox and IE's interpretation of web standards.
I was more interested in finding out where this style had come from really, because I've seen a lot of devs doing something similar and semantically it's just always struck me as a bit odd looking!
thats madness. just because the browser allows it, doesn't mean you should do it.