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Servo with Josh Matthews

Rustacean Station

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The Tension of Backwards Compatibility

The browser is one of the most forgiving parsers out there. There are so many standards, right? Remember HTML five probably is the most popular one that people know. So X HTML and then lots of other ones and then just different revisions of those on the doc type. It was always found that tension to be really interesting where you're always looking for like what's the best we can do within this like broad set of constraints occasionally.

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