- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:01:53 -0700
- To: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Cc: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>, W3C List <public-html@w3.org>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
On May 1, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Gareth Hay wrote: > > To address the point I do understand, I agree, no one is perfect, > but are you really suggest something akin to using a C compiler to > take some pseudo code input and attempt to produce executable code, > by hook or crook? A C compiler runs on the developer's machine. This is different from content produced by one party and consumed by many others using a variety of tools, where there is more benefit to being lenient in what you accept. More importantly, in such cases it is important to define the error behavior so that it is consistent, to avoid the reverse engineering arms race that we've had for HTML error handling in the past. Regards, Maciej
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