- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:52:34 +0200
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Dave Raggett" <dsr@w3.org>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>, dbaron@dbaron.org, public-html@w3.org
Also sprach Anne van Kesteren:
> On Tue, 01 May 2007 20:06:31 +0200, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:
> > I think that we may differ on how effective CSS's error handling
> > really is. It's great that there is a well defined way to resume
> > parsing after finding something that isn't understood or which
> > violates the grammar in someway, but CSS hasn't helped developers
> > who are struggling to deal with browsers that vary considerably in
> > their support for CSS.
Certainly, defining syntax-level error handling doesn't solve
presentational issues.
> > In fact, one could say that the problems with CSS and scripting
> > dwarf any interoperability problems with HTML itself.
Probably. Achieving pixel-perfect presentations is about x100 harder
parsing documents the same way.
> Your arguments are applicable to implementations of CSS, not CSS itself.
> Maybe also a little to the CSS community for not creating enough testcases.
Yes, that's a lesson learnt. Acid1 and Acid2 were created for this
reason.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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