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              To err is human—to really mess up takes a computer

I ran the code to fix the BLOCKQUOTE [1] issue and as it turns out, there
were 54 entries that needed further fixing due to the fix I just applied. I
wanted the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) files to still be editable, and
as such, I wrapped the contents of the block-level elements to fit within 80
columns, and the function I used did not take into account where it was safe
to break on an HTML tag. So for future reference, I'll have to write a
customize word-wrapping function to take into account HTML. As it was, I
fixed all 54 entries by hand; some were trivial, some required going into the
backups.

Ah, the wonders of automation. A human can mess up, a computer can mess up a
lot. Quickly.

The other thing I learned is that the entity ' is not defined for HTML 4
(it is for HTML 5, and XML (eXtensible Markup Language)). This is important
because I'm still using HTML 4 for my blog. Why not HTML 5? Because I'm not
fond of the “living standard [2]” (read: changes whenever, meaning an ever-
constant churn of updating HTML to maintain the standard du jour) and the
step-by-step parsing rules [3] instead of a concise syntax. It also doesn't
help that whenever I see WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working
Group), I read it as “What working group?”

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2023/09/25.3
[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html
[3] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html

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