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Obfuscated HTML Contest?

Posted by Cliff on from the they-do-it-for-other-languages dept.

ptaff asks: "We all know the nightmare of typical HTML developer: you get different results on different browsers/platforms (and we're talking HTML only, no CSS/scripts). To make matters worse, MSIE has this ability to render completely invalid HTML code (missing tags, invalid nesting, you get the point). Mozilla and its many cousins are trying hard to keep up with the inconsistencies of today's 'web-optimized-for-MSIE', but where is the limit? As an exercise, can you build the most malformed HTML document that can be rendered in MSIE but will choke on others browsers?"

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  1. Re:How about this one... by belbo · · Score: 5, Informative

    In case someone doesn't get it - look at the source of the page.

    Nice one, thanks :).

    b.

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  2. Re:Just export a Word doc to HTML by ptomblin · · Score: 3, Informative

    I took a cut at modifying deMoronizer.pl to take the MS Word crap out of their generated HTML. You can find it at http://xcski.net/decrap/deCrapifier.pl_txt

    I make no guarantees that it works. Or that it's very well written, it was a quick and dirty hack.

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