- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:58:02 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Andrew Sidwell wrote: > If HTML5 is to be backwards-compatible Is this a given ? Is it even desirable ? And what does it really mean ? That a document written in HTML5 will display "correctly" in browsers that are HTML5-unaware ? That's demonstrably impossible, unless HTML5 is a strict /subset/ of earlier incarnations of HTML (as opposed to superset, which an earlier correspondent proposed). > and have well-defined error > handling, then I'm not sure > how much that differs from defining error > handling for existing content. I remain unconvinced that defining error handling for "existing content" is a worthwhile (or even achievable) exercise. By all means define error handling for HTML5; even -- if you must -- allow a conformant HTML5 user agent to recover gracefully from /some/ (but clearly not all) syntactic errors; but please don't waste time defining how to process tag soup. Philip Taylor
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