Comments on: HTML is not statically typed. It scales ok?

By: weight loss

weight loss — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:55:52 +0000

you can always build something huge out of simple things. but… you make no sense. :|

By: Mike Spille

Mike Spille — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:29:15 +0000

I’ve found that binary and Unicode also scale fantastically. :-)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:33:32 +0000

This is not a valid reference… First, it’s another kind of scaling… Second, HTMl does not ‘talk’ to each other except linking… Third look at the great effort that it takes to (1) update links if pages are broken (2) build really good HTNL parsers dealing with all the PITA people can produce…

I would say HTML is a great example of how 6bln people can change a failure into success when pouring enough effort into it… ;)

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:03:09 +0000

I’m not sure if I would consider HTML having to scale like a web server or app server would have to scale. Is this really scaling? How about huge HTML files with scads of data for drop downs or table data in one page. It just takes a long time to render. I wouldn’t call that scaling.

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By: max

max — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:03:49 +0000

html is for presentation and possible errors can sometimes be saved by browsers (if its a typical error scenario) and or the tags can simply be ignored and the page will still make sense for the reader – there might be some shifted graphics or missing letters; but the overall message gets across.

Imagine the same thing would happen for your code that has behavior (and not just presentation output) and tell me how you would feel if the vm/browser whatever starts skipping some of your instructions ….that would be pretty dangerous, right ? :)