Re: anchors with the same name.

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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 01:50:18 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: Klaus Harbo <Klaus.Harbo@euromath.dk>
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Subject: Re: anchors with the same name.
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Klaus Harbo writes:
> Browsers should produce error messages whenever they encounter bad
> markup. If they don't, you can't reasonably expect information
> providers ("authors") to get it right, can you?

Yes, you can.  If they follow the spec, they're clean.  If they don't,
they're not.  This is independent of whether or not we tolerate more
deviation than someone else.

> > Sick of bug reports because "It works in Mosaic",
> 
> Hear!

Really?  I didn't know you were writing a browser.

Marc