- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:23:30 +0200
- To: "Gareth Hay" <gazhay@gmail.com>, "David Hyatt" <hyatt@apple.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 02 May 2007 10:06:29 +0200, Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure I understand. > > If an author is claiming to be writing HTML5 (possibly by > DOCTYPE="html5" or some such mechanism) why can we not hold the author > to that? > If the page does not conform, is not well formed, an error is displayed. > During the creation process of the page, the author will see this error > - long before it is released into the wild - and if they so desire (as > in they can't be bothered to fix it) they can change what they claim to > write to "tag-soup" and the browser is free to do it's best - albeit > different browsers will do different things, but on the author's head be > it. > > I don't see this as breaking backwards compatibility, but it also allows > for a clear future path to an end point where 90% of the web isn't > tag-soup rendered completely differently depending on platform, browser, > or weather changes. This doesn't take into account HTML content created from script. It's also unclear when you would show an error and how you would handle extensibility in this case. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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