Re: Rethinking HTML 5 (Was: Re: Semicolon after entities) from Geoffrey Sneddon on 2007-05-01 (public-html@w3.org from May 2007)

From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:10:41 +0100
To: tina@greytower.net
Cc: public-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <2F1C94D4-AF3F-4246-A89A-BF40A9AAA484@googlemail.com>

On 1 May 2007, at 16:01, Tina Holmboe wrote:

>   The /specification of a markup language/ should /not/ "support" bad
>   practice. /Browsers/ should support bad practice. We don't want the
>   web to be "broken", after all.

How will the browsers know how to support bad practice? The purpose  
of putting it in the spec is so that all browsers support invalid  
HTML consistently.

- Geoffrey Sneddon

Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:23:35 UTC