- From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:19:26 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: > Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > >> 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. > > /That/ has little or nothing to do with defining HTML5, which > is what I believe to be the remit of this group. By all means > let there be a working group to define how browsers should behave > when faced with invalid HTML 4.01- (a.k.a. tag soup), but do not > let their work interfere with the task in hand, which is to define > what the next iteration of HTML should be, and how browsers should > behave when presented with a /valid/ instance of it (and, perhaps, > how to fail gracefully when presented with something that claims to > be [valid] HTML5 but is not). If HTML5 is to be backwards-compatible and have well-defined error handling, then I'm not sure how much that differs from defining error handling for existing content. Andrew Sidwell
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