Reporting errors (was: Re: Use cases)

On Jan 5, 2011, at 17:08, David Carlisle wrote:

> No one (I think) is going to suggest that you get errors from the html parser, so the other choice (other than just accepting the data corruption and documenting how to avoid it) is to make the result of parsing less corrupt.

Although I'm not suggesting exposing parse errors in the CSS view port, the following are within the realm of semi-planned possibility for Firefox:
 1) Reporting bogus use of /> to the Error Console.
 2) Highlighting most Parse Errors (excluding Unicode layer errors and excluding validation errors) in View Source. Note that Firefox already highlights bogus use of /> in View Source.
 3) Reporting most Parse Errors to the Web Console if the Web Console is open during document load.

(This is not a promise to implement any of the above.)

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Received on Thursday, 6 January 2011 14:17:54 UTC