Risks of Undefined Behavior
HTML versions 4 and earlier left error handling undefined. Over time pages started relying on unspecified error-recovery implemented in popular browsers. This caused difficulties for vendors of less-popular browsers who were forced to reverse-engineer and implement bug compatible error recovery. This has led to de facto standard that was much more complicated than it could have been if this behavior was specified from the start.
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