- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:32:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote: > > > > Putting forward a formal schema causes people to claim that things > > that are not caught by the schema are allowed, even when this > > contradicts other claims in the specification. > > I don't see this as a major problem. Most competent developers will be > aware that this is only a partial check, especially if we warn about > this in text and descriptions. It is a huge problem, IMHO, because most developers aren't competent by that definition. Also, I _want_ my tools to catch as many errors as possible. Having the spec artificially limit what errors can be caught seems like an unnecessary limitation. (And if we do have a spec schema, and it doesn't catch everything, you know people will claim that conformance checkers that catch mistakes the spec schema wouldn't flag are buggy and are reporting bogus errors. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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