- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:41:02 +0100
- To: public-appformats@w3.org
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote in message news:op.te7b1jtt64w2qv@id-c0020... > > On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:19:34 +0100, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net> > wrote: >>> 5. "XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 8, Character: 0)" in >>> Opera; >> >> That's interesting...does failing to parse properly necessarily have >> to prevent rendering? > > That's not really the point. The mistake could be on the first line. For > example, lots of pages have whitespace before the XML Prolog or don't > declare a namespace or insert some <meta> elements that are not "self > closing." And whether or not we render half of the page, it would still be > worse than in Internet Explorer. Not to speak of the differences in > scripting and such. So render all the page - it's not XML, so render it using the HTML version - which is what you would've done if your algorithm had decided it was HTML, nothing is lost other than the parsing time to first consider it XML. Jim.
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